「 No
harmless child labor: The effect of child labor on academic achievement in
francophone Western and Central Africa 」
●저자 : 이지은, 김형종, 이동은
●권호 : 80
●게재년월 :
2021년 11월 29일
[초록]
This study
empirically examines the effect of child labor on academic achievement in 10
francophone Western and Central African countries. The data were taken from the
Programme d’Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs de la CONFEMEN and comprised
characteristics of 25,288 grade six students across 1803 schools. Two-stage
least squares analysis highlights that child labor undermines academic
achievement regardless of subject, gender, and age. It lowers reading and
mathematics scores for both genders and for children under 12 and over 13
years. Child labor therefore hinders human capital accumulation in African
countries, and it takes place at the cost of future prosperity.