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IZA Workshop: Child Labor in Developing Countries
| Organizer: | Randall K. Q. Akee (Tufts University and IZA) |
| Place: | IZA, Bonn |
| Date: | June 07, 2007 |
Program
Thursday, June 07:
| 08:30 | - | 09:00 | Welcoming Address Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University) |
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| 09:00 | - | 10:00 | Gianna Claudia Giannelli (University of Florence and IZA), Francesca Francavilla (University of Florence) | ||
| "The Relation between Child Labor and Mothers' Work: The Case of India" | |||||
| Discussant: Abdul Saboor (University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan) | |||||
| 10:00 | - | 11:00 | Gabriel Gonzalez-König (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Quentin Wodon (The World Bank) | ||
| "Remittances, Schooling, and Child Labor" | |||||
| Discussant: Arnab K. Basu (College of William and Mary and IZA) | |||||
| 11:00 | - | 11:15 | Coffee/Tea Break | ||
| 11:15 | - | 12:15 | Furio C. Rosati (University of Rome Tor Vergata and IZA), Maria Cristina Rossi (University of Rome Tor Vergata) | ||
| "Impact of School Quality on Child Labour and School Attendance: The Case of the CONAFE Compensatory Education Program in Mexico" | |||||
| Discussant: Sonia R. Bhalotra (University of Bristol and IZA) | |||||
| 12:15 | - | 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | - | 14:30 | Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) | ||
| "Does Land Reform in Transition Countries Increase Child Labor? Evidence from the Republic of Georgia" | |||||
| Discussant: Kenneth A. Swinnerton (U.S. Department of Labor and IZA) | |||||
| 14:30 | - | 15:30 | Ana C. Dammert (Carleton University and IZA) | ||
| "Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru" | |||||
| Discussant: Diana Kruger (Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile and IZA) | |||||
| 15:30 | - | 15:45 | Coffee/Tea Break | ||
| 15:45 | - | 16:45 | Javier E. Baez (World Bank and IZA), Indhira Santos (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) | ||
| "Children’s Vulnerability to Weather Shocks: A Natural Disaster as a Natural Experiment" | |||||
| Discussant: Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Zurich) | |||||
| 16:45 | - | 17:45 | Open Group Discussion: Creating a Child Labor Research Working Group Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, University of Bonn and DIW Berlin) Furio C. Rosati (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and IZA) Eric V. Edmonds (Dartmouth College, USA and IZA) |
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| 19:30 | Dinner | ||||
| 20:00 | Dinner Talk Eric V. Edmonds (Dartmouth College and IZA) "Child Labor: The State of Empirical and Theoretical Research" |
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