The Determinants of Child Labor and Schooling in the Philippines

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Abstract: The previous literature suggests that the determinants of child labor are largely country specific, indicating that any policies aimed at reducing child labor must look carefully at the causes of child labor in context. My thesis adds to the empirical work on child labor by investigating what household and community characteristics are most common among working children in the Philippines, using data collected by the International Labour Organization. I use a multinomial logit model with child activity as the dependent variable, where the three possible outcomes are work only, work and study, and study only. I find that poverty has a strong negative impact on the probability a child works full time or part time (relative to study only), especially in rural areas, as do the years of the household head’s education and having electricity and access to drinking water. Having a close biological relation to the head has a significantly positive effect on the probability of studying only for all groups of children, and especially for urban girls. The results also indicate that government programs like welfare and community organizations do little to reduce child labor, probably due to the lack of awareness among the majority of the populace.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2009

Author	Rickey, Lindsay
Primary advisor	Jayachandran, Seema
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	multinomial logit
Subject	Filipino
Subject	poverty
Subject	income
Subject	household head
Subject	education
Subject	biological relation
Subject	household composition
Subject	community infrastructure
Subject	female headship
Subject	welfare
Genre	Thesis

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Preferred Citation: Rickey, Lindsay. (2009). The Determinants of Child Labor and Schooling in the Philippines. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/kr865pw3395

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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