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Kuépié, Mathias – Education Economics, 2018
In this paper, our main objective is to test the hypothesis that child labor can be a rational response to low returns to formal education in Mali. To this end, after a literature review, we build a flexible conceptual model that explicitly links the child labor supply to the comparison of the expected returns to education with child labor. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
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Munene, Ishmael I.; Ruto, Sara J. – International Review of Education, 2010
Since 1948, various UN conventions have recognised basic education as a human right. Yet this right continues to be denied to many child labourers across the world. This articles draws on the results of a study examining how children in domestic labour in Kenya access and participate in education. Three issues were explored: (1) the correlates of…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Child Health, Foreign Countries, Child Labor
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Harpham, Trudy; Huong, Nguyen Thu; Long, Tran Thap; Tuan, Tran – Children & Society, 2005
There are increasing calls for more child specific measures of poverty in developing countries and the need for such measures to be multi-dimensional (that is not just based on income) has been recognised. Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs) are now common in international development research. Most PPAs have been undertaken with adults and…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations