Child Labor in Africa: A Comparative Study

Sudharshan Canagarajah and Helena Nielsen
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2001, vol. 575, issue 1, 71-91

Abstract: This article analyzes the determinants of child labor in Africa as inferred from recent empirical studies. The empirical analysis is based on five country studies undertaken in three different African countries, namely, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zambia. Some support is found for the popular belief of poverty as a determinant of child labor; however, other determinants are of similar importance. Among school costs, transportation costs have the greatest effect on child labor and school attendance, whereas the hypothesis of imperfect capital markets and that of household composition generally find some support.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/000271620157500105

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