School proximity and child labor: evidence from rural Tanzania
Florence Kondylis and Marco Manacorda
Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using microdata from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for nonrandom location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Our analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no significant fall in child labor.
9 January 2012
The Journal of Human Resources 47(1) , pp.32-63, 2012
https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/1/32/tab-article-info
This Journal article is published under the centre's Labour programme.