Does Child Labor Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy

RavalCion and Wodon try to determine whether children reduction in the incidence of child labor among boys seln to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a poverty (girls) represents about one-quarter (one-eighth) of the trap, with the extra incorne to poor families from child increase in their school enrollment rate. Parents are labor comiing at the expense of the chilcdren's longer-term clearly substituting other uses of their children's time to prospects of escaping povei-ty through education.