Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Education and Child Labor: An Analysis of Child Labor in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorClott, Timothy Alecen
dc.contributor.committeechairLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBriggs, Ryan C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberThomas, Courtney Irene Powellen
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-26T09:10:50Zen
dc.date.available2015-12-26T09:10:50Zen
dc.date.issued2015-12-09en
dc.description.abstractTwo major ideas dominate past literature on child labor. First, past literature continues to support the well-developed relationship between poverty and rates of child labor. Second, past literature continues to associate school attendance as the primary opportunity cost of child labor and juxtaposes the variables as a mutually exclusive trade off. The following project investigates both these ideas. By conducting several logit regression models between school attendance and participation in family-affiliated agricultural practices in Nigeria, the paper investigates a specific aspect of poverty (school attendance) while also providing empirical evidence to support the assumed relationship that education and child labor represent a trade off. The findings support the notion that school attendance correlates with a decreased likelihood of participation in moderate forms of child labor. Children in Nigeria who attend school are less likely to also have worked in a family affiliated agricultural capacity. The project concludes by discussing the potentially positive policy implications for eliminating exploitative child labor. By framing moderate agricultural labor as the most engrained form of child labor, the theoretical implications of the impact of school attendance on child labor becomes even greater.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:6919en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/64398en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectchild laboren
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectagricultural studiesen
dc.subjectlabor studiesen
dc.subjectNigeriaen
dc.titleUnderstanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Education and Child Labor: An Analysis of Child Labor in Nigeriaen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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