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Ravallion, Martin; Wodon, Quentin – 1999
This paper examines whether children sent to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a "poverty trap," with the extra income from child labor coming at the expense of the children's longer-term prospects of escaping poverty through education. The poverty trap argument depends on children's work being substitutable for schooling. Casual…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Labor, Elementary Education, Enrollment
