Sh li d Child L b Oslo Workshop on Child Labor and EFA - October 20-21 2008 Schooling and Child Labor: What role for education policies? What role for education policies? M M d Marco Manacorda Queen Mary University of London CEP- London School of Economics & UCW [email protected]
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S h li d Child L bOslo Workshop on Child Labor and EFA - October 20-21 2008
Schooling and Child Labor: What role for education policies?What role for education policies?
M M dMarco Manacorda Queen Mary University of LondonCEP- London School of Economics & UCW
Learning benefitsSocio-emotional consequencesSocio emotional consequences Knowledge/discipline Improves quality of match Deterrent against underperformanceDeterrent against underperformance GE + externalities
Does repetition cause drop-out and lower h l tt i t?school attainment?
Natural experiment (Manacorda, 2008)Uruguay: automatic grade failure if more g y gthan 25 days of absenceData follow students for (up to) 5 yearsData follow students for (up to) 5 years
Grade Failure by Number of Missed School D i J i Hi hDays in Junior High
126
.8 Discontinuous rise
25
.6
in repetition
25
.4.2
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35Missed school days
Pupils’ absenteeism and educational tt i t (5 i d )attainment (5 years window)
33.
52
2.5
25
11.
5
Discontinuous fall in attainment
26
0.5
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35Missed school days
uncensored censored
Pupils’ Absenteeism and stay-on rates (5 i d )years window)
43.
54
53
2522.
5
Discontinuous fall in stay on rate
26
1.5
in stay-on-rate
1
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35Missed school days
The cost of grade repetitiong p
Grade repetition• After 5 yearsy• Lowers school attainment by half a year
Increases drop out by similar amount (after• Increases drop out by similar amount (after 5 years)
How to remedy repetition?y p
Pre-schoolingEarly Human Capital investmentEarly Human Capital investmentSocialization to schoolEnforcementAdditional benefits (mother’s work)Additional benefits (mother s work)
Does re-school lower repetition?p
Berlinski, Galiani and Manacorda (2008)Compare siblings’ school trajectoriesCompare siblings school trajectoriesUruguay: universal pre-school
Preschool attendance and educational tt i t ( ibli ’ i )attainment (siblings’ comparison)
Diverging 1
g geducational paths between children who attended pre-
.5
school compared to siblings who did not
0
-.5
6 8 10 12 14 16age
Preschool attendance and stay-on rates ( ibli ’ i )(siblings’ comparison)
.3
Diverging stay-on rates between children who
tt d d
.2
attended pre-school compared to siblings who did not
.1 not
0-.1
6 8 10 12 14 16age
Costs and benefits of pre-schoolp
By age 15 +0 79 years of education+0.79 years of education + 27 p.p. in school
Benefits-Costs ratio >2.2
School accessibilitySchool accessibility
Higher distance Reduces attendance Increases specialization Effect on child labour ambiguousEffect on child labour ambiguous
Distance to school and child labour
Kondylis and Manacorda (2008)Compare households in same village p gRural Tanzania: villagization policyControls for distance to other infrastructuresControls for distance to other infrastructures
Distance to school and children’s time use
Naif With Naif estimates
With controls
School 1 670*** 0 365**School -1.670 -0.365
Work 0.425*** -0.270
Work and school -1 101*** -0 519***Work and school 1.101 0.519
Work only 1.526*** 0.249
School only -0.569*** 0.153
Neither school nor work 0.145 0.117
Results by gendery g
males femalesmales females 1. School -0.580*** -0.057 2. Work -0.137 -0.492 3 W k d h l 0 734*** 0 1983. Work and school -0.734*** -0.198 4. Work only 0.597*** -0.294 5. School only 0.154 0.140 6. Neither school nor work
-0.017 0.352
Distance to school and children’s time use
One additional km in distance to school:+ 0.3 p.p. school attendancep pNo significant effect on child labor/idleness
Child l b i l tiChild labor inelasticEffect largely for boysg y yExternal validity? E t i i t i iExtensive vs. intensive margin
What role for education policies?p
I t i ibilitImprovements in accessibilityreduce incentives to drop-outand to engage in economic activity
In poorer countries child labor inelasticIn poorer countries child labor inelasticLabor demand CCT interventions ?
Repetition policies harmfulp pEarly school exposure viable option