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Download full textTaylor, Mark – Online Submission, 2017
In Africa, approximately 80 million children are working. Africa's 41% child labor rate is nearly twice as high as that in Asia. This study examined whether child labor is a direct result of poverty or of reading and math problems in school. The study analyzed reading and math scores of 62 child laborers and 62 non-child laborers from a farming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Poverty, Learning Problems
Direct linkLaborda Castillo, Leopoldo; Sotelsek Salem, Daniel; Sarr, Leopold Remi – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
In this article, the authors analyze the effect of poverty, social exclusion, and child labor on out-of-school rates for female children. This empirical study is based on a dynamic panel model for a sample of 216 countries over the period 1970 to 2010. Results based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) of Arellano and Bond (1991) and the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Social Isolation, Child Labor, Females
Peer reviewedNdiaye, Serigne; Sofranko, Andrew J. – Rural Sociology, 1988
Explores relationship between farm technology and labor availability in Africa. Studies introduction of high-yielding maize variety in Zambia and resulting effects on labor availability/mobilization. Shows shift to hybrids requires additional labor, including available children. Illustrates need for adoption research taking broader farming…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Child Labor, Developing Nations
