Artículo de revista
Child Labor and Schooling in Bolivia: Who’s Falling Behind? The Roles of Domestic Work, Gender, and Ethnicity
Fecha
2011Registro en:
World Development Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 588–599, 2011
0305-750X
doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.08.022
Autor
Zapata, Daniela
Contreras Guajardo, Dante
Kruger, Diana
Institución
Resumen
We analyze the role of gender and ethnicity in the work-school tradeoff among school-aged children. We observe domestic
chores in Bolivian data and consider them work, finding that girls are 51% more likely than boys to be out of school and working, mostly
in domestic activities. For indigenous children the probability is 60% higher than non-indigenous, and indigenous girls are 23% more
likely than boys to be out of school and working. A more comprehensive measure of child labor reveals that in countries with large
indigenous populations, indigenous girls are most vulnerable to future poverty and exclusion due to low education.