To browse Academia. This is a review of research on child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on child labor taking place in the household and controlled by relatives of the children since this is the most extensive form of child labor in African countries. It is also the form of child labor that is the most difficult one to appraise from a normative point of view.
Subtle trade-offs between schooling, leisure and poverty across generations may be involved. Hence, the paper emphasises welfare economics issues pertaining of child labor. Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, F - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account?
Click here to sign up. Family - controlled child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - a survey of research jens Christopher Andvig. They present preliminary and unpolished results of analysis that are circulated to encourage discussion and comment; citation and the use of such a paper should take account of its provisional character. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author s and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent.
Telephone: , Fax: , E-mail: socialprotection worldbank. Abstract This is a review of research on child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another feature of this study is that it seeks to survey not only the economic research, but also research from other social sciences, particularly social anthropology.
The social anthropological studies deal with an aspect of child labor so far less adequately dealt with by economists - the relationship between their labor and their socialization; how certain types of labor and education may give rise to different preferences to the children as adults. A major, but tentative conclusion of this survey is that the relationship between poverty and child labor is less close than normally assumed in the policy debate. This paper surveys recent research on the subject.
