Is poverty the cause of nonattendance in schools and prevalence of idleness in children? A regional analysis of Sind

Authors

Sarah Abdul Rahim, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, PakistanFollow
Khadija Bari, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract

This paper investigates the extent to which poverty determines the activities of children in the province of Sind. A structured demand model is estimated using multinomial logit regression, whereby the effect of the variables poverty, mother autonomy and gender equality are measured on schooling, student labour, child labour and idleness. The results reveal that greater poverty levels negatively impact parents’ decision regarding child schooling. Furthermore, higher educational gender equity and mother empowerment is positively associated with child schooling.

Keywords

Schooling, Student labour, Idleness, Gender equality, Mother autonomy

DOI

https://doi.org/10.54784/1990-6587.1036

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Rahim, S. A., & Bari, K. (2018). Is poverty the cause of nonattendance in schools and prevalence of idleness in children? A regional analysis of Sind. Business Review, 13(1), 37-51. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.54784/1990-6587.1036