Child Labour or School Attendance? Evidence from Zambia

Peter Jensen and Helena Nielsen

Working Papers from Centre for Labour Market and Social Research, Danmark-

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate what affects school attendance and child labour in an LDC, using data from Zambia. We find some support for the hypothesis that poverty forces households to keep their children away from school.

Keywords: CHILDREN; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 1996
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