RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 School Proximity and Child Labor
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 32
OP 63
DO 10.3368/jhr.47.1.32
VO 47
IS 1
A1 Kondylis, Florence
A1 Manacorda, Marco
YR 2012
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/1/32.abstract
AB 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.