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The Joint Estimation of Child Participation in Schooling and Employment: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents

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Pushkar Maitra ()
Ranjan Ray ()

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This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries .We use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non participation of children in schooling and in employment and, in particular, allows the possibility that a child combines schooling with employment or does neither. We also use an ordered probit estimation procedure based on a ranking of the various child schooling/employment/non schooling/non employment outcomes. The results point to both similarities and striking dissimilarities in the nature of child labour and child schooling between the chosen countries. For example, in Pakistan, but not in Peru, the girl child’s ordering of schooling/employment outcomes shows her at a position of extreme disadvantage. Household poverty discourages a child from achieving superior outcomes, but the effect varies markedly across the three countries.

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Paper provided by Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre in its series ASARC Working Papers with number 2000-04.

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Keywords: Child Labour; Child Schooling; Multinomial Logit; Ordered Probit;

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C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables
D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty
J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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