project quot;Child Labor and Access to Credit: Evidence from Rural Tanzania and Vietnamquot; funded by the Bank's Research …Although a growing theoretical literature points to credit constraints as an important source of inefficiently high … child labor, little work has been done to assess its empirical relevance. Using panel data from Tanzania, Beegle, Dehejia …

This paper seeks to understand household business decisions in response to increased credit access in an environment … overcome the fixed costs of entering entrepreneurship when they have increased access to credit. In the presence of labor … increase household access to credit in the world. I find that, consistent with the model, expanded access to credit raises …