%0 Report %A Cigno, Alessandro %T How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country %D 2011 %8 2011 Apr %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 5663 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5663 %X As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and uses a combination of need and merit based grants, financed by earmarked taxes, to relax credit constraints, redistribute and insure. Existing conditional cash transfer schemes can be made to approximate the second-best policy by incorporating these principles in some measure. %K optimal taxation %K moral hazard %K uncertainty %K education %K child labour