Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62422 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6601
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children's participation in economic activities and chores. This combination of increased school participation and work can be explained by the introduction of a simple non convexity in the standard model of altruistic utility maximizing households. If education programs are implemented to achieve a combination of increased school participation and a reduction in child work, they may either have to be combined with different interventions that effectively reduce child work or they may have to be tuned more carefully to the incentives and constraints the child laborer faces.
Subjects: 
Burkina Faso
child labour
regression discontinuity
school participation
JEL: 
I25
J22
J24
O12
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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