Title Trade adjustment and human capital investments : evidence from Indian tariff reform / [prepared by] Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova

Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations Series IMF working paper ; WP/07/94 IMF working paper ; WP/07/94. Summary Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The data suggest that this failure to follow the national trend of increasing schooling and diminishing work is associated with a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and therefore improved capacity to afford schooling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-48) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject School attendance -- India Child labor -- India Child labor Commercial policy School attendance SUBJECT India -- Commercial policy Subject India Form Electronic book Author Pavcnik, Nina, 1971- Topalova, Petia. International Monetary Fund. Research Department. ISBN 128239214X 9781282392144 1451911114 9781451911114 9781451866582 1451866585 ISSN 2227-8885

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