This paper provides an in-depth review and analysis of literature on dropping out from
school, and focuses on children who have gained access, but fail to complete a basic …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

This paper analyzes the effects of being indigenous, number of siblings, sibling activities
and sibling age structure on child schooling progress and child non-school activity. The …

Despite the extensive literature on the determinants of child labor, the evidence on the
consequences of child labor on outcomes such as education, labor, and health is limited …

The paper addresses the issue of child labor in relation to the educational attainment of
working children. The empirical analysis is based on household surveys in Bolivia and …

This paper analyzes the effect of children's work on learning achievement. Its particular
significance is that it goes beyond the analysis of the effects on school enrollment or …

The ILO definition of the worst forms of child labour includes work that is likely to jeopardise
health and safety. Effective targeting of those child work activities most damaging to health …

Using data from Peru and Pakistan, this article tests two hypotheses: there is a positive
association between hours of child labor and poverty, and there is a negative association …

We investigate the degree to which there is a trade‐off between child labour and human
capital formation using time‐log data of children from a Tanzanian household survey. We …

This study estimates the individual and combined effects of selected family, student and
school characteristics on the academic achievement of poor, urban primary-school students …