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...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/17742408/childrens-working-hours-school-enrollment-evidence-pakistan-nicaragua http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17206 |
| Summary: | 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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