School Absenteeism and Child Labor in Rural Bangladesh

Kumar, Alok; Saqib, Najmus

doi:10.1353/jda.2017.0074

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“…16 In addition, a discrepancy in sample size arises when we do and do not use regression adjustment to control for parental and household characteristics as the former requires information from the parent questionnaire, which is not available for all families. 17 High student absenteeism from schools is a big problem in Bangladesh, with more than a quarter of children aged 7-14 years missing at least one day of school in a six-day school week in the rural areas of Bangladesh (Kumar and Saqib, 2017). Tietjen, Rahman and Spaulding (2004) found based on surprise visits to government primary schools in Bangladesh that the actual percentage of students enrolled who were in attendance on the day of the visit ranged from 43 percent to 67 percent.…”

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The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Islam

Lee

Nicholas

2021

Journal of Development Economics

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Section: Sample and Baseline Balancementioning

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The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Islam

Lee

Nicholas

2021

Journal of Development Economics

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“…As a consequence, minors are at higher risk of sexual exploitation, trafficking and victimization (Scanlon et al 2002;Edmonds and Pavcnik 2005;Chaudhuri and Dwibedi 2016;Greenbaum and Bodrick 2017;Ahad et al 2021), increased rates of mortality and occupational injuries (Roggero et al 2007;Schlick et al 2014;Shendell et al 2016). In several developing countries working children drop out of school (Shafiq 2007;Huisman and Smits 2015) or show poor academic performance (Psacharopoulos 1997;Holgado et al 2014;Putnick and Bornstein 2015;Kumar and Saqib 2017).…”

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Are Working Children in Developing Countries Hidden Victims of Pandemics?

Kechagia¹

2021

Social Sciences

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The consequences of the recent pandemic have been disproportionately disruptive to several social groups, including children. As developing economies have been firefighting the recent pandemic, the welfare of minors could be affected and children’s economic exploitation and abuse could increase. Therefore, the present research aims to shed light on and to investigate the association between child labour in developing countries and pandemics, including the coronavirus, through conducting a systematic literature review on previous empirical studies. The present research concludes that previous studies on non-COVID-19 pandemics have mainly focused on the African economies, while studies on the recent pandemic have focused on Asian countries. In addition, differences were observed in relation to the methodological approaches and the characteristics of minor employees and the protection services in certain countries have proven to be insufficient. Suggestions for future research and policy implications are presented.

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“…This is the state duty to protect their children's by arranging such programs, by proving social protections to their peoples and by setting up the strict rules for labour market. As per Kumar and Saqib (2017), working children's in developing countries dropped out from school or faced poor academic records. The impact of trade openness & FDI on the number of child labour has indeed been addressed by Wang (2017).…”

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The Interrelation between Political Instability and Child Labour in Developing Countries

Rao

Hussain

Ashraf

2021

RJSI

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This study has examined the impact of political instability on child labour on the panel of 53 developing economies. To conduct this analysis, this study has applied GMM (generalized method of moments) techniques to the panel data of child labour (dependent variable) and political instability urbanisation, inflation, gross domestic product, and trade (independent variables) from 2000 to 2015. In addition, it has conducted the disaggregated analysis, which is based on the level of income in developing economies. This study has concluded that political instability has a positive impact on child labour in developing countries. Child labour is positively related to inflation and trade, negatively associated with economic growth rate and urbanization. According to disaggregated analysis, political instability also positively affects child labour in low-income and high-income countries. Still, trade has a positive impact on high-income countries and a negative impact on low-income countries. In addition, control variables and child labour in the primary model and disaggregate analysis have the same relationships. Empirical results of this study suggest that political instability plays a critical role in increasing child labour in developing countries and has indicated that the government of developing countries should pay particular attention to political instability. Child labour can be reduced by taking good steps toward controlling political instability.

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School Absenteeism and Child Labor in Rural Bangladesh

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country

Are Working Children in Developing Countries Hidden Victims of Pandemics?

The Interrelation between Political Instability and Child Labour in Developing Countries

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