Marking Time: An Analysis of Youth Hours of Work and Study in Urban Mexico
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 751-763, 2008
Posted: 12 May 2012 Last revised: 15 May 2012
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Marking Time: An Analysis of Youth Hours of Work and Study in Urban Mexico
Review of Development Economics, Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp. 751-763, November 2008
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 27 Oct 2008
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Date Written: 2008
Abstract
This paper argues that a more complex view of work and schooling is critical to poor countries as they implement policies to increase educational attainment. In this analysis of 12, 17-year-old girls and boys in urban Mexico, we expand the traditional approach in two dimensions by (1) moving from an analysis of participation to one of hours of participation; and (2) broadening the definition of work to include youth's household responsibilities.
Keywords: educational attainment, Mexico
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Knaul, Felicia and Knaul, Felicia and Moe, Karine S. and Levison, Deborah, Marking Time: An Analysis of Youth Hours of Work and Study in Urban Mexico (2008). Review of Development Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 751-763, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2056543
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