Policy Brief No. 7 of 2004 on Education and Child Labour in Kenya

Abstract

This policy brief is based on a study on Education and child labour in Kenya. The study investigates the child labour-schooling trade-off owing to the fact that those children who are not in school end up in child labour. The study was motivated by the realisation that to promote schooling, there is need to understand what drives children from school to labour. The study also looks at the effect of quality of schooling, and also the role of adult and child market wages on child labour and child schooling. To determine the key causes of child labour, the study estimated a child labour hours supply equation using household cross-sectional data from the 1998/1999 Integrated Labour Force Survey....