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Abstract
The aim of this dissertation is to identify the causal relation
between rural child labour and health. The analysis utilized the PNAD, a
Brazilian household survey, from 1998 and 2003. The econometric modeling
was based on the pseudo-panel approach and was considered the
children from 5 to 15 years old in 1998 and from 10 to 20 years old in
2003. The results show that work and work in risky jobs in the agricultural
sector do not differ from those impacts of other sectors. It was also presented,
for all individuals that work in the agricultural sector does not impact
the health capital and work in the non rural sector impact negatively
the health capital. So, the government intervention in rural areas should
be different from the one implemented on the urban area to mitigate the
impact of child labour on health and also, the government intervention
should be implemented in parallel with the improvement of the access to
the health system, drugs policies, maternal health education program.