Eric V. Edmonds’s research while affiliated with Dartmouth College and other places

... In this context, child labour is normalised because children are seen as the future owners of small-scale farms (Abdullah et al., 2022). In this sense, Edmonds and Theoharides (2021) stated that this type of child labour is not only a human right, but also an economic issue, as it can be both the cause and the consequence of a lack of economic development. Financial inclusion has been argued to be a way to deal with the problem of child labour, as access to credit or insurance services would allow the acquisition of technified systems and manpower, which can reduce the presence of unpaid and unskilled labour (Bernal, 2021). ...

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Social life cycle assessment of low-tech digesters for biogas and biofertiliser production in small-scale farms

... through improvements in socio-emotional skills. There is a small body of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving socio-emotional skills in low-and middle-income countries from small-scale experiments on older girls or young women (Krishnan and Krutikova 2013;Ashraf et al. 2020;Edmonds, Feigenberg, and Leight 2020). Relatedly, Alan and Ertac (2018) and Alan, Boneva, and Ertac (2019) have shown the effectiveness of a larger elementary school-based intervention on the socioemotional skills of patience and grit (persistence) respectively in Turkey, though for younger children, around the age of ten. ...

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Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills

... Enhancing girls' agency in spouse selection, alongside building their overall agency, is a crucial strategy for improving contraceptive selfefficacy and enhancing spousal communication about family planning. Prior evidence from interventions for unmarried adolescent girls focused on life skills has demonstrated notable improvements in adolescent girls' agency, fostering more gender-equitable norms, reducing school dropout rates, and boosting girls' self-esteem and self-efficacy Edmonds et al., 2023). Future interventions should consider empowering married adolescent girls and young women to improve their contraceptive self-efficacy and spousal communication, further facilitating improved reproductive health outcomes. ...

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Marital choice, spousal communication, and contraceptive self-efficacy and use among newly married girls in India: Evidence from the UDAYA study

... As a result, whether non-contributory social pension programmes reduce poverty among older people has emerged as an important policy question. Academic research on large cash transfers to older people in South Africa has proliferated since the pioneering work of Case and Deaton (1998;see Ardington et al. 2009;Bertrand et al. 2003;Duflo 2003;Edmonds et al. 2005;Jensen 2004). Studies on social pensions in Latin America, many of which provide generous benefits to older people, have also emerged (Bando et al. 2020;de Carvalho Filho 2008;Galiani et al. 2016;Juarez 2009). ...

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Small cash transfers to older people: do they reduce poverty?

... While some livelihood programs reduce child labour (Beuermann 2015;de Hoop et al. 2018), others may not or even increase it (de Hoop, Groppo, and Handa 2020;Edmonds and Theoharides 2020). Programs that rely on a single component, such as livelihood support, tend to have more modest outcomes compared to combined approaches that also include financial support or social education (Berry, Karlan, and Pradhan 2018). ...

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More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector

... In line with theoretical models, several empirical studies have found that access to credit reduces child labour (Beegle et al, 2003;Dehejia and Gatti, 2002;Guarcello et al, 2010). However, some studies have found the opposite, particularly when households gain access to microcredit (Hazarika and Sarangi, 2008;Maldonado and González-Vega, 2008;Edmonds and Theoharides, 2020;Hossain, 2023). This may relate to the somewhat counterintuitive fact that opportunities to employ children may not exist at very low levels of household income or wealth (since most children are employed within the family). ...

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Child labour

... previous studies show that land holding size (atnafu et al., 2014;ayele & Degefa, 2020;Bezu & holden, 2014), poor soil fertility (Gebreyes et al., 2017;Melesse & Nachimuthu, 2017) livestock size (ayele & Degefa, 2020), number of dependent children (abebaw et al., 2020;abebe, 2007;Gebreyes et al., 2017), educational level of the household head (ashurov & Kuddusov, 2019;Bikoue, 2021;Dad, 2021;esatu, 2015;herrera & sahn, 2013), sex of the household head (tegegne & penker, 2016),age of the household head (Dad, 2021), size of households (altasseb, 2011;Balcha, 2018;focused Gebru & Beyene, 2022), households' social networks (abeje, 2021;Bezu & holden, 2014;de Brauw, 2019;Kwankye et al., 2009;tegegne, 2015;Wondimagegnhu & Zeleke, 2017) and number of adults in households (abebaw et al., 2020;Deshingkar & start, 2003), and absence of credit for parents of child laborers (edmonds & shrestha, 2013;Gubhaju & De Jong, 2009) are empirically proven to have a determining effect on households decision to participate in labor migration. however, most previous studies foused on rural-urban migration and the issues of households participation in rural-rural labor migration in general and in inter-rural child labor migration in particular have received limited attention (ayele & Degefa, 2020). ...

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Determinants of households’ decision to participate in temporary inter-rural child labor migration: the case of Sekella district, Amhara region, Ethiopia

... For example, Barrera-Osorio et al. (2008) found that CCTs that only target one child in the household may simply redistribute child labour among siblings, and Camilo and Zuluaga (2022) found that siblings of children receiving a cash transfer have lower school enrolment and greater absenteeism. There is also an issue with the size of the transfer, where CCTs that are not large enough to cover the full cost of attending school run the risk of not impacting (or even at times increasing) child labour (Edmonds and Shrestha, 2014;Datt and Uhe, 2019;de Hoop et al, 2019). The evidence for UCTs is somewhat more mixed than that for CCTs. ...

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Child labour

... There are, however, significant variations in prevalence estimates. The reasons for these variations include the lack of a clear universal definition of child labour (Edmonds, 2008). Broadly, all definitions of child labour aim to discern between work that is beneficial or those than are harmful for children. ...

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Child labour in cocoa growing regions of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: an analysis of academic attainment in children engaged in hazardous labour.

... 114-135), es una reivindicación que los propios niños hacen valer. La reivindicación es el resultado de la experiencia de los niños trabajadores de que las leyes y políticas existentes para protegerlos de la explotación rara vez, o nunca, han contribuido a mejorar su situación, sino que en realidad han aumentado su discrimina ción y vulnerabilidad (véase Bourdillon et al., 2010;Edmonds y Maheshwor, 2012;Bharadwaj et al., 2013;Putnick y Bornstein, 2015). ...

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La resistencia de la niñez trabajadora a la discriminación por edad. Reflexiones sobre el adultocentrismo, la temporalidad y la condición infantil.