Lima, Luiz Renato; Mesquita, Shirley; Wanamaker, Marianne - In: Economics Letters 130 (2015) C, pp. 80-82
Using data from Pakistan, we study the effect of family wealth on the utilization of child labor. We find evidence of a positive relationship between land wealth and child labor only for children in the upper quantiles of the distribution. We hypothesize that the so-called “wealth paradox”...
