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More than 190 million children under 15 are working in the world today.
Many of these children are helping their families by working on the
family farm or in the family business. Others toil in horrific
conditions.
Academic research on child labor and related questions about how
children spend their time in low income countries has boomed in recent
years. So too has policy interest and attention. Too often research is
conducted without appropriate attention to policy, and too often policy
is designed and implemented without relying on the best available
science. The purpose of the IZA-Child Labor Network (IZA-CLN) is to
construct communication and information bridges between researchers
interested in improving the policy relevance of their work and
policymakers interested in improving the science and capacity to learn
from and build on their efforts.
Network members are currently engaged in projects to define child labor,
to understand why children work and how they become engaged in worst
forms of child labor, to measure the consequences of common forms of
work for education, health, and occupational choice, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of various child labor and schooling related policy
interventions.
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