Is Rural Child Labour Declining in India?

Uma Kambhampati

No em-dp2009-06, Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Reading

Abstract: This paper will look at the patterns of child work, schooling and 'idleness' across the major states of India and over two years - 1993 and 2004. We analyse two rounds of the NSS dataset to see whether the patterns of schooling and child work have changed over this period or not. The analysis concentrates on the rural sector and finds that the proportion of children in work has increased between 1993 and 2004. While current attendance at school has increased, the proportion of children whose primary activity is schooling has decreased. We hypothesise that this may be because, in a growing economy, there are more opportunities for employment and therefore a larger number of children are likely to combine work and schooling.

Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2009-05-02
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