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School Proximity and Child Labor: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
- Journal of Human Resources
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2012
- pp. 32-63
- 10.1353/jhr.2012.0004
- Article
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Is improved school accessibility an effective policy tool for reducing child labor in developing countries? We address this question using microdata from rural Tanzania and a regression strategy that attempts to control for nonrandom location of households around schools as well as classical and nonclassical measurement error in self-reported distance to school. Our analysis shows that school proximity leads to a rise in school attendance but no significant fall in child labor.