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The relationship between wealth and
child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three
rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the
relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling.
The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a
child's activities, but that this factor is far from
being a sufficient condition to enroll a child in school.
This is particularly the case for rural girls. Nonparametric
analysis shows a universal increase in school enrollment for
rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent
of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure). Multinomial
logit regression further shows that wealth is insignificant
in determining rural girls' activity decisions. Thus,
interventions to increase school enrollment should
incorporate broad-targeted, demand-side interventions as
well as supply-side interventions.
