Full Citation

Title: Child Labor Laws and the End of Child Labor in the U.S.: Evidence from American Manufacturing Censuses (1900-1920)

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2007

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: I use U.S. industrial data in order to study whether child labor laws (CLL) are responsible for the remarkable decline of child labor in the United States (1900-1920). If CLL effectively reduced child labor, industries with higher technological needs for child labor would have grownmore slowly in states that enacted child labor laws. Contrary to some previous research, I find that child labor laws explain part of the decline in child labor experienced by the United States between 1900 and 1920.

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Puerta, Juan Manual

Conference Name: Economic History Society 2008 annual conference

Publisher Location: University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: