Reducing child labor
Interesting article from today’s NY Times titled Research Changes Ideas About Children and Work identifies poverty as the #1 reason children work instead of going to school.
A couple of highlights:
The recommendation: Alleviate poverty.
A couple of highlights:
- This goes against the popular "understanding" that children go to work based on cultural expectations or poor education of their parents.
- Most working children work for their parents in agriculture, not in factories.
- According to a study, rising incomes account for 60% of the reason that children no longer work.
- As income rises, parents often choose to hire [adult] labors and/or invest in productivity enhancements like fertilizers and equipment to replace the labors of their children.
The recommendation: Alleviate poverty.
Labels: child labor, poverty
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