increase in child labour and family farm work, driven by changes in labour contracts and land use, could explain the results …. Also, the prevalence of a type of contract frequently tied to modern slavery and child labour, known as meeiros …

Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the … subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban … absence of informational asymmetries, child labour can be eliminated and a First Best achieved if the ban is combined with a …