Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints / Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, Roberta Gatti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beegle, Kathleen.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dehejia, Rajeev.

Gatti, Roberta.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10088.

NBER working paper series no. w10088

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.

Summary:

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant. Our results suggest that credit constraints play a role in explaining child labor and consequently that child labor is inefficient, but we also discuss alternative interpretations.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2003.