CHILD LABOR OR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE - EVIDENCE FROM ZAMBIA

In this paper we investigate what affects school attendance and child labour in an LDC, using data for Zambia. Since the data comes from a h ousehold survey with information on all household members it allows us to take account of unobserved household effects by introducing househ old-specific effects in a legit model. The empirical analysis suggests that both economic and sociological variables are important determina nts for the choice between school attendance and child labour. In part icular, we find some support for the hypothesis that poverty forces ho useholds to keep their children away from school.