The Differential Impact of 4Ps on Child Labor Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Main Authors: Villaret, Hannah Grace, Anastacio, Joey, Burgos, Yohana B., Fernandez, Lyka May Pauline, Castillo, Paulynne J., Raymundo, Roberto, Tanchuco, Joel Q.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Poverty; 4Ps; Child Labor; Covid19; Food Security; Income Distribution; Labor Economics; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_aki/178; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/res_aki/article/1187/viewcontent/DLSU_AKI_Policy_Brief__2023_12_022.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Poverty is widely considered the root cause of child labor in the Philippines. Thus, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) was designed to alleviate poverty and reduce child labor through financial assistance, conditional on welfare investments like children’s education. Using 2017, 2019, an...