TY  - JOUR
AU  - Beegle,Kathleen
AU  - Dehejia,Rajeev
AU  - Gatti,Roberta
TI  - Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10088
PY  - 2003
Y2  - November 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10088
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10088.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Kathleen Beegle
The World Bank
E-Mail: kbeegle@worldbank.org

Rajeev H. Dehejia
Dept of Economics and The Fletcher School
Tufts University
114A Braker Hall
8 Upper Campus Road
Medford, MA 02155-6722
Tel: 617/163-1230
Fax: 617/868-2742
E-Mail: rajeev@dehejia.net

Roberta Gatti
The World Bank
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20433
E-Mail: rgatti@worldbank.org
AB  - This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant. Our results suggest that credit constraints play a role in explaining child labor and consequently that child labor is inefficient, but we also discuss alternative interpretations.
ER  -