Download This PaperChildren's Working Hours and School Enrollment: Evidence from Pakistan and Nicaragua
22 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2003
Date Written: July 2003
Abstract
We analyse the determinants of school attendance and hours worked by children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. On the basis of a theoretical model of children's labour supply, we simultaneously estimate the school attendance decision and the hours worked by Full Model Maximum Likelihood. We analyse the marginal effects of explanatory variables conditioning on the "latent" status of children in terms of schooling and work. We show that these effects are rather different, and discuss the policy implication of this finding.
Keywords: child labour, education, human capital
JEL Classification: I21, J23, J24
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