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CHILD WORK AND SCHOOLING IN BANGLADESH: THE ROLE OF BIRTH ORDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2007

RASHEDA KHANAM
Affiliation:
Discipline of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia
MOHAMMAD MAFIZUR RAHMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Resources Management, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Summary

Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of four activities: ‘study only’, ‘study and work’, ‘neither work nor study’ and ‘work only’. The results of the multinomial logit model show that being a first-born child increases the probability of work as the prime activity, or at least a combination of school and work, rather than schooling only. The results confirm that later-born children are more likely to be in school than their earlier-born counterparts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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