Basu, Kaushik; Das, Sanghamitra; Dutta, Bhaskar - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2009
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 …