Child Labor and Schooling in Bolivia: Who's Falling Behind? The Roles of Domestic Work, Gender, and Ethnicity

Daniela Zapata, Dante Contreras and Diana Kruger

World Development, 2011, vol. 39, issue 4, 588-599

Abstract: Summary We analyze the role of gender and ethnicity in the work-school tradeoff among school-aged children. We observe domestic chores in Bolivian data and consider them work, finding that girls are 51% more likely than boys to be out of school and working, mostly in domestic activities. For indigenous children the probability is 60% higher than non-indigenous, and indigenous girls are 23% more likely than boys to be out of school and working. A more comprehensive measure of child labor reveals that in countries with large indigenous populations, indigenous girls are most vulnerable to future poverty and exclusion due to low education.

Keywords: child; labor; domestic; work; schooling; gender; Latin; America; Bolivia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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