TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Basu, Kaushik
AU  - Das, Sanghamitra
AU  - Dutta, Bhaskar
        TI  - Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
        PY  - 2007/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2736
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2736
        AB  - Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which suggests an inverted-U relationship between land holdings and child labor. A unique data set from India that has child labor hours information confirms this hypothesis. It is shown that the turning point beyond which more land leads to a decline in child labor occurs at 3.6 acres of land per household, which is well below the observed maximum value of land-holding.
        KW  - labor markets
KW  - child labor
KW  - land-holding
KW  - education
        ER  -