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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in BrazilThis paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market...
Education Wages AgricultureResearch Brief

Working Paper
Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelMyanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour...
Myanmar Child labour Education reformIn the media
Ricardo Santos interviewed on results of recent IGM reportOn 1 July 2021, Ricardo Santos, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow and IGM Resident Advisor, and Assa Guambe, National Director of the Labour Market Observatory (DNOMT) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MITSS), were interviewed on STV on the...
Child labourIn the media
Child labour during pandemic - UNU-WIDER expert interviewed for a Finnish development news portalUNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä was interviewed for an article discussing the increase of child labour during corona pandemia. The article is published on a Finnish development news portal Maailma.net.
COVID-19 Child labour ChildrenSeminar

Journal Article
Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto ProgramPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersWorking Paper
Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito PintoIn 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour...
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship and human capital development in childrenThis paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes...
Non-farm Enterprises Child labourWorking Paper
Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from NigeriaThis paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se...
Child education Child labour Female bargaining powerProject
Gender and food securityTheme: 2006-07
UNU-WIDER’s recent project ‘Hunger and Food Security’ exerted a strong attraction for academia, international organizations (FAO, WFP, and UNCTAD), civil society organizations, and the media. The first project meeting, held in...
Poverty Inequality and Well-being Hunger