Child Work and Schooling in rural north India : What do time use data say about tradeoffs and drivers of human capital investment?

dc.contributor.author	Narayanan, Sudha
dc.contributor.author	Dhanraj, Sowmya
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-10T08:34:28Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-10T08:34:28Z
dc.date.issued	2013-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2275/297
dc.description.abstract	This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274 villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and leisure. Using a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SURE) Model, we find that only a few variables influence allocation of time to different activities across the board. Overall, there seems to be no tradeoff between time spent at school and at work, whereas leisure time and home study appear to be compromised for the sake of work.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;WP-2013-023
dc.subject	time use	en_US
dc.subject	primary schooling	en_US
dc.subject	India	en_US
dc.subject	child labour	en_US
dc.subject	seemingly unrelated regression	en_US
dc.title	Child Work and Schooling in rural north India : What do time use data say about tradeoffs and drivers of human capital investment?	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US