Evidence on the impact of child labor on child health in Indonesia, 1993–2000 |
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Authors: | Franois-Charles Wolff Maliki |
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Institution: | LEN, Université de Nantes, BP 52231, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France. wolff@sc-eco.univ-nantes.fr |
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Abstract: | Despite an abundant literature on child labor in developing countries, few papers have attempted to investigate the consequences of child labor on health. This paper explores whether child labor affects child health using data from the Indonesian Socio-Economic Surveys during the 1990s. For our empirical analysis, we restrict our attention to children currently enrolled in school and we use several discrete indicators for health. Our results show that child labor is associated negatively with health. We obtain this result by introducing labor participation as an exogenous covariate in the different health equations. Similar results are found once the work decision is instrumented. |
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Keywords: | Child labor Child health Indonesia |
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