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What makes child workers go to school? A case study from West Bengal
Author(s) -
Pal Manoranjan,
Pal Jadab K.,
Tiwari Hare Ram,
Bharati Premananda
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2011.00123.x
Subject(s) - west bengal , child labour , attendance , enlightenment , standard of living , demographic economics , economics , psychology , socioeconomics , sociology , economic growth , labour economics , work (physics) , engineering , mechanical engineering , market economy , philosophy , theology
. Based on data from 327 households comprising at least one child labourer in 2008, this paper investigates the effects of different socio‐economic and demographic variables on the relationship between child labour and schooling. The results show that the socio‐demographic variables, capturing the “enlightenment” of the parents (e.g. education) do not have much influence on children's school attendance, whereas the economic variables, capturing the standard of living of the households, have a strong influence on whether the children go to school.