Can health-insurance help prevent child labour? An impact evaluation from Pakistan |

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Country

Pakistan

Policy Area

Policy

Authors

A Landmann, M Frölich

Year

2015

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Form of exploitation

Child Labour

Affected group

Households

Location

Local

Result on Child labour

The National Rural Support Program (NRSP) has contributed to reductions in child labour, hazardous work, and earnings generated through child labour. Boys are more often engaged in child labour, but also seem to profit more from the insurance innovation. The health insurance extension may have reduced child labour incidence by around 10 percent, weekly hours worked by children by around four and days missed at school by around one. Monthly visits alone, on the other hand, had little significant effects.

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