TY - JOUR
T1 - No harmless child labor
T2 - The effect of child labor on academic achievement in francophone Western and Central Africa
AU - Lee, Jieun
AU - Kim, Hyoungjong
AU - Rhee, Dong Eun
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Do Won Kwak and to three anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are the authors? responsibility.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - This study empirically examines the effect of child labor on academic achievement in 10 francophone Western and Central African countries. The data were taken from the Programme d'Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs de la CONFEMEN and comprised characteristics of 25,288 grade six students across 1803 schools. Two-stage least squares analysis highlights that child labor undermines academic achievement regardless of subject, gender, and age. It lowers reading and mathematics scores for both genders and for children under 12 and over 13 years. Child labor therefore hinders human capital accumulation in African countries, and it takes place at the cost of future prosperity.
AB - This study empirically examines the effect of child labor on academic achievement in 10 francophone Western and Central African countries. The data were taken from the Programme d'Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs de la CONFEMEN and comprised characteristics of 25,288 grade six students across 1803 schools. Two-stage least squares analysis highlights that child labor undermines academic achievement regardless of subject, gender, and age. It lowers reading and mathematics scores for both genders and for children under 12 and over 13 years. Child labor therefore hinders human capital accumulation in African countries, and it takes place at the cost of future prosperity.
KW - Academic performance
KW - Child labor
KW - Educational development
KW - Human capital
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102308
DO - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102308
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096838111
VL - 80
JO - International Journal of Educational Development
JF - International Journal of Educational Development
SN - 0738-0593
M1 - 102308
ER -