Basu, Kaushik; Das, Sanghamitra; Dutta, Bhaskar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Some studies on child labor have shown that 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 is an explicit … modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which suggests an inverted-U relationship between land holdings and …