DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER SERIES Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi
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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, in the peak harvest season, 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 means of owned land 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. * We are grateful to Stefan Klonner, Dean Karlan, David Brasington, and Moh’d al-Azzam for their helpful comments. ** Corresponding author
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Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi
Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi 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 foun...
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