PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eric V. Edmonds
TI  - Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XL.1.77
DP  - 2005 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 77--99
VI  - XL
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/1/77.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XL/1/77.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2005 Jan 01; XL
AB  - Between 1993 and 1997, child labor in Vietnam declined by nearly 30 percent while the country’s GDP grew by nearly 9 percent per year on average. Using a simple, nonparametric decomposition, I investigate the relationship between improvements in per capita expenditure and child labor with a panel data set that spans this episode of growth in Vietnam. Improvements in per capita expenditure can explain 80 percent of the decline in child labor that occurs in households whose expenditures improve enough to move out of poverty. This finding suggests a previously undocumented role for economic growth in the amelioration of child labor.