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Why do parents their children work ? A test of peverty hypothesis in rural areas in Brukina Faso

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  • Dumas Christelle

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This article aims at testing whether child labor is caused by poverty. Tests are designed for rural areas in a setting characterized by the absence of a labor market. A model of rural household labor supply is developed that provides testable implications of two different poverty hypotheses. We test if child labor is due to a binding subsistence constraint and if child leisure is a luxury good. We find that, in rural Burkina Faso, children provide labor mostly because of labor market imperfections and not because of household subsistence needs and that child leisure is a normal good.

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  • Dumas Christelle, 2004. "Why do parents their children work ? A test of peverty hypothesis in rural areas in Brukina Faso," Research Unit Working Papers 0411, Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA.
    • Handle: RePEc:lea:leawpi:0411
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    Keywords

    child labor; rural hoseholds; market imperfections; poverty hypothesis;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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