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Poverty and Other Determinants of Child Labor in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Amin Shahina,
Quayes M. Shakil,
Rives Janet M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.1002/j.2325-8012.2004.tb00609.x
Subject(s) - poverty , logistic regression , work (physics) , demographic economics , child labour , rural area , birth order , psychology , economics , socioeconomics , sociology , economic growth , demography , political science , population , statistics , mathematics , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
In this research we examine poverty and other determinants of child labor in Bangladesh. We define income quintiles as a means of measuring family poverty and add child and family characteristics to our model. We estimate the likelihood that a child will work, using separate logistic regression models for younger and older boys and girls in urban and rural areas. Our results support the notion that a family's poverty affects the probability that a child will work; keeping children away from work is a luxury these families cannot afford. Moreover, it is important to examine separate demographic groups in order to fully understand the determinants of child labor in Bangladesh since the effects of child and family variables on the probability that a child will work differ among these groups.