TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Emerson, Patrick M.
AU  - Souza, André Portela
        TI  - Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
        PY  - 2007/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3027
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3027
        AB  - This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of child labor on adult outcomes. Estimations of an instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for male children even when controlling for schooling and that the negative impact of starting to work as a child reverses at around ages 12-14.
        KW  - adult outcomes
KW  - Brazil
KW  - child labor
        ER  -