Political choice and the child labor statute of 1938: Public interest or interest group legislation? |
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Authors: | Audrey B Davidson Elynor D Davis Robert B Ekelund Jr |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Louisville, 40292, Louisville, KY 2. Department of Economics, Georgia Southern University, 30460, Statesboro, GA 3. Department of Economics, Auburn University, 36849-5242, Auburn, AL
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Abstract: | Federal regulation of child labor (unlike that passed in early nineteenth century England) did not materialize until the New Deal of the 1930s. The present paper examines, using anecdotal and empirical evidence, the motives underlying the passage of depression-based child labor legislation embodied in the Senate vote on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Our study, which utilizes both dichotomous and trichotomous probit models of the vote, finds evidence that there were critical and dominantprivate as opposed to public interests behind the restrictions that the FLSA placed on child labor and the exemptions that it established. |
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