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 …

extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates … the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant …. Our results suggest that credit constraints play a role in explaining child labor and consequently that child labor is …