The main goal of this paper is to investigate the determinants of child labor in urban Brazil taking into account the differences in state's income and structures of labor markets. In this intend, we estimated a set of models to account for unobserved heterogeneity using a panel of data provided by PNADs of 2001 to 2009. The findings suggest that the level of income per capita and the informality of regional markets play an important role in the intensity of child labor in the Brazilian states. Moreover, we also find temporal and intergenerational persistence of child labor in Brazil.
Child labor; Urban Brazil; Intergenerational Persistence
