This paper aims to begin to fill in the gap about the possible role of school quality in affecting household decisions relative to children’s work and school attendance. While from a theoretical point of view, we would expect school quality to be an important determinant of household...

The study assesses trends in children’s involvement in employment and schooling in Andhra Pradesh over the eleven-year period from 1994 to 2005. Considerable progress was made in getting children out of employment and into school over this 11-year period: children’s involvement in employment...

A partir des enquêtes réalisées dans quatre pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest entre 2005 et 2006, cette étude examine les formes de travail des enfants et ses facteurs explicatifs. Elle s’appuie sur l’interprétation des textes nationaux et internationaux en matière de travail des enfants...

The current report was developed under the aegis of UCW project activities in Cambodia. It provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in Cambodia- its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health and education, and national responses to it. The report serves two...

The current report as part of UCW project activities in Nepal. It provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in the Kingdom - its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health and education, and national responses to it. The report serves two important UCW project...

The current report was developed under the aegis of a joint ILO/World Bank/UNICEF project “Understanding Children's Work” in Yemen. It provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in Yemen – its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health and education, and...

The current report was developed under the aegis of UCW project activities in Morocco It provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in the Kingdom - its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health and education, and national responses to it. The report serves two...

The report provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in El Salvador – its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health and education, and national responses to it. The report serves two important UCW project objectives in the country. First, it helps provide a common...

We analyse the determinants of school attendance and hours worked by children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. On the basis of a theoretical model of children's labour supply, we simultaneously estimate the school attendance decision and the hours worked by Full Model Maximum Likelihood. We analyse...

We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences...