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Microeconomic instability and children's human capital accumulation: the effects of idiosyncratic shocks to father's income on child labor, school drop-outs and repetition rates in Brazil

Sedlacek, Guilherme Luís; Costa, Daniela Ribeiro da; Carvalho, Alexandre; Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Neri, Marcelo Côrtes
2000-07-01

This paper evaluates the long-run effects of economic instability. In particular, we study the impact of idiosyncratic shocks to father’s income on children’s human capital accumulation variables such as school drop-outs, ...