Child Labour Poverty and Poverty Linkages: A Micro Analysis from Rural Malawian Data

Levision Chiwaula

No RP_208, Research Papers from African Economic Research Consortium

Abstract: This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. Instrumenting consumption expenditure with a location dummy variabl and interacting consumption expenditure with household land-holding size in probit models, the likelihood of child labour is found to relate negatively with household consumption. On the other hand child labour relates positively with household land-holding size for consumption poor households only and when labour markets are imperfect. These findings do not discourage asset accumulation policies as a remedy agaisnts child labour but support policies that aim at increasing returns on the assets.

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Date: 2010-11
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