The Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Rural Tanzania
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This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. We use crop and rainfall shocks as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, we find that a one standard deviation (5.7 hour) increase in child labor leads 10 years later to a loss of approximately one year of schooling and to a substantial increase in the likelihood of farming and of marrying at a younger age. Strikingly, we find no significant effects on education for girls, but do find a significant increase in the likelihood of marrying young and some evidence of reduced labor productivity. We also find that crop shocks lead to an increase in agricultural work for boys and instead lead to an increase in chore hours for girls. Our results are consistent with education being a lower priority for girls or with chores causing less disruption for education than agricultural work. The increased chore hours could also account for our results on marriage and labor productivity for girls. * We thank seminar participants at the Fall 2006 Child Labor Conference at Indiana University, the Paris School of Economics, IDEI at the University of Toulouse, the CSAE Conference at Oxford University, Rutgers University, CIDE, The Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University for helpful comments. All errors are our own. Contact information: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].
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