School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Florence Kondylis and Marco Manacorda ()

Journal of Human Resources, 2012, vol. 47, issue 1, 32-63

Abstract: Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using microdata from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for nonrandom location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Our analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no significant fall in child labor.

Date: 2012
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Working Paper: School Proximity and Child Labor Evidence from Rurul Tanzania (2010)
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