Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33584 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1567
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven 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 household access to microcredit, measured in a novel manner as self-assessed credit limits at microcredit organizations, raises the probability of child work in households with sample mean values of land ownership and number of retail sales enterprises. It appears this is due to children having to take up more domestic chores as adults are busied in household enterprises following improved access to microcredit.
Subjects: 
child labor
microcredit
JEL: 
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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