Publications

Defining Child Labour: A review of the definitions of child labour in policy research / International Labour Office, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) - Geneva: ILO, 2009.

Child labor and schooling in a globalizing world: Evidence from urban India (with N. Pavcnik and P. Topalova), Journal of the European Economics Association Papers and Proceedings, 2009, 7(2-3), 498-507.

Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (with P. Salinger), Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, 1 (1), 32-56.

Child Labor, Handbook of Development Economics Volume 4, 2008, also available as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper # 12926

Alternative Income Generation and Entry into Worst Forms of Child Labor, in Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor,(Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. DOL), 2006, pp. 69-114.

A Review of Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati's The Economics of Child Labour (Oxford University Press, 2005) for The Journal of Economic Literature, December 2006

Child Labor and Schooling Responses to Anticipated Income in South Africa, Journal of Development Economics, December 2006, 81(2), 386-414, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10265

Understanding Sibling Differences in Child Labor, Journal of Population Economics, 19(4), October 2006, 795-821.

Trade Liberalization and the Allocation of Labor between Households and Markets in a Poor Country (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, July 2006, 69(2), 272-295.

International Trade and Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, January 2006, 115-140.

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics 65(2), March 2005, 401-419, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #8760

Child Labor in the Global Economy (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(1), Winter 2005, 199-220

Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status? The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 77-99, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10134

Rearranging the Family? Household Composition Responses to Large Pension Receipts (with K. Mammen and D. Miller), The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 186-207, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10306

Targeting Child Benefits in a Transition Economy, Economics of Transition 13(1), January 2005, 187-210.

Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam (with C. Turk) in P. Glewwe, N. Agrawal and D. Dollar (eds), Economic Growth, Poverty and Household Welfare in Vietnam. Washington DC: World Bank, 2004, pp. 505-550

Product Market Integration and Household Labor Supply in a Poor Economy: Evidence from Vietnam (with N. Pavcnik), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #3234, 2004

Household Composition and the Response of Child Labor Supply to Product Market Integration: Evidence from Viet Nam, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #3235, 2004

Should we boycott child labor?, Ethique économique/ Ethics and Economics 1(1), December 2003

Development Assistance and the Construction of Government Initiated Community Institutions, Economic Development and Cultural Change 51(4), July 2003

Child Labour in South Asia, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 5, 2003

Reconsidering the Labeling Effect for Child Benefits: Evidence from a Transition Economy, Economics Letters 76(3), August 2002, 303-309

Government Initiated Community Resource Management and Local Resource Extraction from Nepal's Forests, Journal of Development Economics 68(1), June 2002, 89-115, unpublished appendix tables