Arbeitspapier

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

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6601

Classification
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
Subject
Burkina Faso
child labour
regression discontinuity
school participation
Schulbesuch
Subvention
Wirkungsanalyse
Kinderarbeit
Burkina Faso

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
de Hoop, Jacobus
Rosati, Furio C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • de Hoop, Jacobus
  • Rosati, Furio C.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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