Role of parental education in schooling and child labour Decision: Urban India in the last decade

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 305-322

  Mukherjee, Diganta ^a   Das, Saswati ^b  

^a ICFAI Business School   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Child labour; Education; Harmful work; India; Manual work; NSSO; School drop out

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; DATA SET; EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN CAPITAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 53149111603     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9233-0     Document Type: Article

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