Does social labelling encourage child schooling and discourage child labour in Nepal?

authored by
Sayan Chakrabarty, Ulrike Grote, Guido Lüchters
Abstract

This paper explores the determinants of child labour vis-à-vis child schooling. It further examines the influence of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which are engaged in social labelling, on the incidence of child labour and schooling trade-off. The empirical results show that the probability of child schooling increases as well as child labour decreases if a carpet firm has adopted a labelling scheme. It can also be shown that labelling NGOs have a significant positive influence on sending the ex-child labourers to school.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade
External Organisation(s)
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST)
University of Bonn
Type
Article
Journal
International Journal of Educational Development
Volume
31
Pages
489-495
No. of pages
7
ISSN
0738-0593
Publication date
09.2011
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Education, Development, Sociology and Political Science
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 1 - No Poverty, SDG 4 - Quality Education, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.11.002 (Access: Closed)