Child labor and the wealth paradox: The role of altruistic parents

Luiz Lima (), Shirley Mesquita and Marianne Wanamaker ()

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 130, issue C, 80-82

Abstract: Using data from Pakistan, we study the effect of family wealth on the utilization of child labor. We find evidence of a positive relationship between land wealth and child labor only for children in the upper quantiles of the distribution. We hypothesize that the so-called “wealth paradox” in child labor is driven by parental preferences.

Keywords: Child labor; Wealth paradox; Endogeneity; Censored quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.005

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