Children's Working Hours and School Enrollment : Evidence from Pakistan and Nicaragua
Although much of the literature on child
labor looks at the decision on whether to send a child to
school or to work (or both), little attention has focused on
the number of hours worked. This article analyzes the
determinants of school attendance and hours worked by
children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. A theoretical model of
children's labor supply is used to simultaneously
estimate the school attendance decision and the hours
worked, using a full model maximum likelihood estimator. The
model analyzes the marginal effects of explanatory
variables, conditioning on latent states, that is, the
propensity of the household to send the child to work or
not. These marginal effects are in some cases rather
different across latent states, with important policy implications.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Rosati, Furio Camillo,
Rossi, Mariacristina |
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| Format: | Journal Article
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
Washington, DC: World Bank
2003-05
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| Subjects: | ACCOUNT,
ADVISORY SERVICES,
AGE GROUPS,
CAPITAL INVESTMENT,
CAPITAL MARKETS,
CHILD EARNINGS,
CHILD LABOR,
CHILD LABOR POLICIES,
CHILD WELFARE,
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS,
ECONOMICS,
ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOR,
EMPLOYMENT,
ENROLLMENT,
ENROLLMENT RATE,
FORMAL EDUCATION,
GIRLS,
HUMAN CAPITAL,
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,
INCOME,
INTERVENTIONS,
LABOR ORGANIZATION,
LABOR STANDARDS,
LABOR SUPPLY,
LABOUR,
LEARNING,
LIVING STANDARDS,
MARGINAL VALUE,
NUTRITION,
PARENTAL CHOICE,
PARENTS,
PRIMARY EDUCATION,
PRIMARY SCHOOL,
PRODUCTIVITY,
RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN,
RURAL AREAS,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL -AGE CHILDREN,
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE,
SCHOOL PROGRAMS,
SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN,
SCHOOLING,
SECONDARY EDUCATION,
SOCIAL PROTECTION,
UNSKILLED LABOR,
WAGES,
WORKING CHILDREN,
WORKING CONDITIONS,
WORKING HOURS,
YOUNG CHILDREN, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/17742408/childrens-working-hours-school-enrollment-evidence-pakistan-nicaragua
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17206
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