No harmless child labor: The effect of child labor on academic achievement in francophone Western and Central Africa

Jieun Lee; Hyoungjong Kim; Dong Eun Rhee

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102308

No harmless child labor: The effect of child labor on academic achievement in francophone Western and Central Africa

Jieun Lee
, Hyoungjong Kim
, Dong Eun Rhee^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This study empirically examines the effect of child labor on academic achievement in 10 francophone Western and Central African countries. The data were taken from the Programme d'Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs de la CONFEMEN and comprised characteristics of 25,288 grade six students across 1803 schools. Two-stage least squares analysis highlights that child labor undermines academic achievement regardless of subject, gender, and age. It lowers reading and mathematics scores for both genders and for children under 12 and over 13 years. Child labor therefore hinders human capital accumulation in African countries, and it takes place at the cost of future prosperity.

Original language	English
Article number	102308
Journal	International Journal of Educational Development
Volume	80
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102308
Publication status	Published - 2021 Jan

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Academic performance
Child labor
Educational development
Human capital

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Education
Development
Sociology and Political Science

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No harmless child labor: The effect of child labor on academic achievement in francophone Western and Central Africa

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