The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions.

Autor/in	Strulik, Holger
Titel	The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Rolle von Armut und Gemeinschaftsnormen bei der Kinderarbeit und Einschulungsentscheidungen.
Quelle	Hannover (2008), 30 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Diskussionspapiere / Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät. 383
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen 5; Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	0949-9962
Schlagwörter	Gemeinschaft; Entscheidung; Soziale Norm; Kind; Schulbesuch; Dorf; Region; Armut; Entwicklungsland; Allokation; Kinderarbeit; Wirtschaftsfaktor
Abstract	"Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over time. The proposed model provides an explanation for why equally poor villages or regions display different attitudes towards schooling and why children who are not working are not sent to school either but remain idle instead. The conditions for a successful implementation of a half-day school vs. a full-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/3