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Child labour in 1920 urban America

Marco Manacorda


When poor children are working rather than going to school, do their parents work less? And what happens to their siblings? Marco Manacorda looks for answers in the experience of child labour in urban America at the dawn of the jazz age.


June 2006     Paper Number CEPCP203

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