Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2008
Abstract
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by 7–11-year-old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that, in the season of peak labor demand, household access to microcredit, measured as self-assessed credit limits at microcredit organizations, raises the probability of child work in households with average landholdings and retail sales enterprises.
Recommended Citation
Hazarika, G. and Sarangi, S., 2008. Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi. World Development, 36(5), pp.843-859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.05.008
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Publication Title
World Development
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.05.008
Comments
Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.05.008