Sylvain Dessy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5806073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvain Dessy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvain |
| FAMILY NAME | Dessy |
| SIGNATURE | DESSY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4945-9168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Free compulsory education can mitigate Covid-19 disruptions’ adverse effects on child schooling
Motherhood and Women's Self-Employment
The literature holds that having young children pushes women into self-employment to reconcile motherhood demands with their professional ambitions. However, knowledge gaps remain on how this effect differs by social context. Using nationally representative data from Nigeria, this paper demonstrates that motherhood has no statistically significant impact on women’s self-employment probabilities in a context where self-employment is predominantly …
A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Although intuitive and morally compelling, a ban on the worst forms of child labour in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving. We show that harmful forms of child labour have an economic role: by maintaining wages for child labour high enough, they allow human capital accumulation in poor countries. Unless appropriate mechanisms are designed to mitigate the decline in child labour wages caused by reduced employment options for childre…
Taxes, inequality and the size of the informal sector
Child labor and coordination failures
A defense of compulsive measures against child labor
A defense of compulsive measures against child labor
Child labor and coordination failures
Taxes, inequality and the size of the informal sector
A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Although intuitive and morally compelling, a ban on the worst forms of child labour in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving. We show that harmful forms of child labour have an economic role: by maintaining wages for child labour high enough, they allow human capital accumulation in poor countries. Unless appropriate mechanisms are designed to mitigate the decline in child labour wages caused by reduced employment options for childre…
A defense of compulsive measures against child labor
Child labor and coordination failures
Taxes, inequality and the size of the informal sector
A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Although intuitive and morally compelling, a ban on the worst forms of child labour in poor countries is unlikely to be welfare improving. We show that harmful forms of child labour have an economic role: by maintaining wages for child labour high enough, they allow human capital accumulation in poor countries. Unless appropriate mechanisms are designed to mitigate the decline in child labour wages caused by reduced employment options for childre…
Free compulsory education can mitigate Covid-19 disruptions’ adverse effects on child schooling
Motherhood and Women's Self-Employment
The literature holds that having young children pushes women into self-employment to reconcile motherhood demands with their professional ambitions. However, knowledge gaps remain on how this effect differs by social context. Using nationally representative data from Nigeria, this paper demonstrates that motherhood has no statistically significant impact on women’s self-employment probabilities in a context where self-employment is predominantly …
Economics (6 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Fertility (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Human capital (2 works)