Children’s Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America

＂From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuin＂

David Post teaches and researches international children’s education and welfare in the Department of Education Policy Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. With support from the Spencer and Ford Foundations, Post conducted this comparative case study of three Latin American societies. In addition to his work on child labor, Post has published studies on educational opportunity and access in Hong Kong and in California. Post has been a Fulbright-Hayes scholar, a Spencer Fellow, and worked as a visiting researcher in Peru, Mexico, and Hong Kong.