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Basu, Kaushik, Das, Sanghamitra and Dutta, Bhaskar (2010) Child labor and household wealth : theory and empirical evidence of an inverted-U. Journal of Development Economics, Vol.91 (No.1). pp. 8-14. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.01.006 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.01.006
Abstract
Some studies on child labor have shown that, at the level of the household, greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient may be an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which suggests the possibility of an inverted-U relationship between land holdings and child labor. Using a unique data set that has child labor hours it is found that, controlling for child, household and village characteristics, the turning point beyond which more land leads to a decline in child labor occurs around 4 ac of land per household. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.91 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 7 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 8-14 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.01.006 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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