Peer-reviewed article
Child Labour and Schooling of Children in Rural Bangladesh: A Multinomial Logit Model on Determinants.
Md. Shahidul Islam Sarker, Md Mofackharul Islam ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examines why rural children in Bangladesh engage in child labour, attend school, or combine both activities. Using statistical analysis of determinants, the researchers found that various factors have different effects on children's work and schooling outcomes depending on whether the child is male or female. The research identifies gaps in previous literature about how specific factors influence combined school-and-work versus work-only outcomes.
Key points
- Some factors significantly increase the likelihood of children combining school and work or working only
- The effect sizes of these factors differ between male and female children
- No factor was found to have a larger effect on work-only outcomes for females compared to males
- The study focuses on rural children in Bangladesh
- The research uses a multinomial logit model to analyze determinants
Limitations
The document provides no information about which specific factors were studied, what the actual determinants are, or how large the effects were. The study does not appear to evaluate an intervention but rather uses observational data to identify associations, limiting causal inference.
Abstract
This paper seeks better understanding the determinants of child labour and schooling of rural children in Bangladesh. Although literature identified the foremost factors of child labour which constrain schooling attainment of children, however literature has not clarified which determinants encourage children to combine school and work during their study period or solely work without schooling and how the effects of factors vary according to the gender of children as well. The present study contributes to fulfilling these gaps by studying the rural children of Bangladesh. Results show that some particular factors significantly affect to increase to combined (school and work) or work only outcomes and the effect size (size of odds) varies according to the gender of children. There is no significant factor which has a larger effect on the work only outcome for females compared to males.