School Proximity and Child Labor
利用坦桑尼亚农村微观数据,研究发现改善学校可达性提高了入学率,但并未显著减少童工劳动。
Abstract Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using microdata from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for nonrandom location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Our analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no significant fall in child labor.