Child work and schooling in Bangladesh: the role of birth order.
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.
Khanam
Rasheda
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Discipline of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.
Rahman
Mohammad Mafizur
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001459:Bangladesh; D001722:Birth Order; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D003906:Developing Countries; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students