Children's Work and Mothers' Work--What is the Connection?

Deborah S. DeGraff and Deborah Levison

World Development, 2009, vol. 37, issue 9, pages 1569-1587

Abstract: Summary This paper examines the relationship between the employment of children and their mothers, with the aim of informing discussion on efforts to reduce child labor in Brazil. The analysis builds on the largely separate literatures on children's time use and mothers' work in two ways--by examining characteristics of employment which are often not available in survey data, and by modeling both children's work and mothers' employment. The results suggest that the relationship between children's and mothers' work is complex, with substantial evidence of positive correlation. The findings are consistent with the argument that anti-poverty programs that target women's employment could result in increased child labor. This possibility warrants further analysis in order to better inform policy regarding child labor.

Keywords: Brazil; Latin; America; child; labor; women's; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VC6 ... 5c4f1b4ce447f4eb12f8
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:37:y:2009:i:9:p:1569-1587

Access Statistics for this article

World Development is edited by O. T. Coomes

More articles in World Development from Elsevier
Series data maintained by Heidi Boesdal ().