below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

Child labor is pervasive across sub-Saharan Africa. The common assumption is that monetary poverty is its most … with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child … labor appear to include, in particular, the structure of the economy, social norms and no returns to rural basic education …

below which an increase in income has no impact on child labor and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labor and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labor and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that child labour is compelled by poverty or that the child's income … zero for girls. Thus while the evidence is consistent with boys working on account of poverty compulsions, the evidence is …