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Mengistu Abate Weldeyesus; Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
Using a mixed research design, the overall objective of this study is to investigate the profiles of child labour in Ethiopia's districts of Raya-Kobo and Angot. The study's specific objectives are to examine types of activities and prevalence of child labour, to identify the children's working contexts, and to evaluate the extent of harm children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Work Environment, Child Safety
Jass, Harpreet Kaur; Khatoon, Sabeena – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article discusses the role of the community in the development of socio-economically marginalised children. There are several government schemes and civil society efforts for their upliftment. There is further need to critically analyse researches done with a distinct political stance which either seek to manage the marginalised or to…
Descriptors: Community Role, Minority Groups, Low Income Groups, Foreign Countries
Chudgar, Amita; Grover, Vanika; Hatakeyama, Shota; Bizhanova, Aliya – Prospects, 2022
According to the International Labor Organization, at least 160 million children ages 5 to 17 around the world were involved in some form of child labor at the beginning of 2020, including 79 million children performing hazardous labor. This article uses recent representative data from Bangladesh and Pakistan to investigate the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Barriers, Basic Skills
Tohidian, Iman; Taskoh, Ali Khorsandi; Abbaspour, Abbas – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Despite technological advancements in engineering, medicine, agriculture, food, and health; we live in a global community of incidents, challenges, and crises, contrary to the hope of living in a 21st century utopia. Child labour can be seen as a malignant symptom for which policy-makers and senior authorities must take immediate and effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Social Responsibility, Child Labor
Adonteng-Kissi, Obed – Child Care in Practice, 2023
There is nearly universal consensus that child labour is harmful to the development of the child, however, widespread contention exists on whether child labour is cultural or economic necessity. This paper aimed to ascertain parental perceptions of the nature of child labour in rural and urban Ghana. The sample size of this study was 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Child Labor
Samuel Kembou; Sharon Wolf; Kaja Jasinska; Amy Ogan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2023
We leverage data on 1,857 families in 140 rural cocoa-growing communities of Côte d'Ivoire to report on child work activities and schooling decisions. We distinguish between unpaid domestic labor and unpaid agricultural child labor activities reported by children in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that more than 80% of children…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Rural Environment, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Wardani, Amriza N.; Baryshnikova, Nadezhda V.; Jayawardana, Danusha – Education Economics, 2022
We investigate the effect of an educational cash transfer on schooling and working of the recipients and their non-recipient siblings in Indonesia, using a matched difference-in-differences strategy. We find that the cash transfer increases the probability of schooling for all recipients. Specifically, the likelihood of schooling for the senior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, School Holding Power, Child Labor
Brooke Wortsman; Jasodhara Bhattacharya; Joshua Lim; Fabrice Tanoh; Shamina Shaheen; Amy Ogan; Kaja Jasinska – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
Child labour disrupts education, but there is scant research on the reciprocal relationship: education disrupting child labour. We examined the link between school quality and child cocoa agricultural work in a sample of 2168 fifth-grade children from forty-one primary schools in rural Côte d'Ivoire. Children attending a higher quality school were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Child Labor, Agriculture
Sajjad Zohir; Susmita Dutta; Siddiqur Rahman; Wasama Ahmed Khan – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
In the past two decades, Bangladesh experienced a substantial reduction in the prevalence of child labour, associated with improvements in school enrolment and completion. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, also driven by household earning losses and school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report addresses a timely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Access to Education, COVID-19
Kämpfen, Fabrice – Education Economics, 2021
This study provides new evidence on the long-term impact of education on welfare participation in the US. I exploit historical changes in child labor laws as an instrumental variable for education to estimate the causal effects of education on the probability of receiving social welfare benefits. I find large and statistically significant negative…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Outcomes of Education, Child Labor
Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf; Michael J. Sulik; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Jelena Obradovic – Grantee Submission, 2022
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Executive Function, Outcomes of Education
Noelle M. Suntheimer; Sharon Wolf; Michael J. Sulik; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Jelena Obradovic – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Research on the associations among adversity, executive function (EF), and academic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where developmental risk factors are more prevalent and impoverished environments are more widespread than in high income countries, is sparse. This study examines the relations among cumulative risk, EF, and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Executive Function, Outcomes of Education
K. G. Santhya; A. J. Francis Zavier; Basant Kumar Panda; Neelanjana Pandey; Shilpi Rampal; Valeria Groppo; A. K. Shiva Kumar – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
India has made rapid progress towards the universalization of school education, hand in hand with a decline in child labour. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, just as school attendance and completion rates reveal gaps in educational attainment. This report addresses a timely need for new research to help decision-makers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Educational Attainment, Role of Education
Atina Ndindeng – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
Under-education in Cameroon significantly hampers the nation's socio-economic development. Addressing this issue is crucial for enhancing the overall quality of life and economic growth of the country. This study identifies and analyses the primary factors contributing to under-education, offering actionable solutions to improve educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Access to Education, Socioeconomic Influences
JoonHo Lee – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become one of the most prevalent and rapidly growing social assistance strategies in developing countries. Typically, education-focused CCT programs provide monthly or bimonthly cash payments to students who meet specific attendance requirements. There is a wealth of literature documenting…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Educational Finance, Attendance, Program Implementation