Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the … extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates … the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant …