Child Work and Schooling in Pakistan— To What Extent Poverty and Other Demographic and Parental Background Matter?

Madeeha Qureshi, Saman Nazir and Hafsa Hina ()

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Abstract: Keeping into consideration the far-reaching social and economic impact of child work both for the children involved and society as a whole, in this study an attempt has been made to disentangle the child employment and schooling tradeoff with perspective to understand the effect of income deprivation measures and other non-income factors such as demographic and parental background information for Pakistan using Pakistan Panel Household Survey 2010 data set.

Keywords: Child Employment; Child Schooling; Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
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