Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project

Arbeitspapier

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children's participation in economic activities and chores. This combination of increased school participation and work can be explained by the introduction of a simple non convexity in the standard model of altruistic utility maximizing households. If education programs are implemented to achieve a combination of increased school participation and a reduction in child work, they may either have to be combined with different interventions that effectively reduce child work or they may have to be tuned more carefully to the incentives and constraints the child laborer faces.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6601

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education and Economic Development ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Thema: Burkina Faso ; child labour ; regression discontinuity ; school participation ; Schulbesuch ; Subvention ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Kinderarbeit ; Burkina Faso

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): de Hoop, Jacobus ; Rosati, Furio C.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62422
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ