The Economics of Child Labor: Comment

A comment is provided to Fallon and Tzannatos' Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the World Bank. In the paper they note that there is a negative association between income and the level of child labor for low income countries, but that this association becomes less marked in the more afflu...

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Published in:The American economic review 1999-12, Vol.89 (5), p.1382-1385
Main Authors: Swinnerton, Kenneth A., Rogers, Carol Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Capital income
Child labor
Child labour
Developing countries
Dividends
Economic development
Economic hardship
Economic modeling
Economic models
Economic theory
Equilibrium
Family income
Household economics
Income distribution
Labor economics
Labour market participation
Labour supply
LDCs
Low income groups
Studies
Wealth
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Summary:A comment is provided to Fallon and Tzannatos' Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the World Bank. In the paper they note that there is a negative association between income and the level of child labor for low income countries, but that this association becomes less marked in the more affluent countries. Given the well-known problems with data on child labor both within countries and in a cross-country context, they most strongly suggest that the weakening of the negative relationship between the incidence of child labor and per capita GDP may be a statistical artifact. The model suggests another factor that may explain this finding: when child labor is observed in these more affluent countries, inequality in the income distribution may be the reason.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.89.5.1382