School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

• Autores: Florence Kondylis, Marco Manacorda
• Localización: Journal of human resources, ISSN 0022-166X, Vol. 47, Nº 1, 2012, págs. 32-63
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using microdata from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for nonrandom location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Our analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no significant fall in child labor.