Role of Parental Education in Schooling and Child Labour Decision: Urban India in the Last Decade |
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Authors: | Diganta Mukherjee Saswati Das |
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Institution: | (1) ICFAI Business School Kolkata, Plot J-3, Block GP, Sector V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, 700 091, India;(2) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India |
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Abstract: | This paper uses household level data from National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) of India, the 55th (1999–2000) and the
61st (2004–05) rounds, to show that even with a significant wage incentive for schooling of urban children, the school drop
out rate and child labour incidence are not small over this period. The parents’ level of education plays an important role
in reducing this tendency; thus establishing the linkage between social and human capital outcomes in the family. We also
look at the incidence of harmful and manual occupations among the child labour. Mother’s education appears as the more important
factor in the recent round in curbing the manual work incidences; supporting earlier findings that women’s empowerment (one
important indicator of which would be female educational level) is indeed becoming instrumental in increasing parental awareness.
Using a pooled data set, we have also analysed the changes in the impact of parental education on these decisions between
1999–2000 and 2004–05.
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Keywords: | School drop out Child labour Manual work Harmful work Education NSSO India |
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