Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
The case of Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21540955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kasper Brandt (0000-0001-8255-8566, Kraka Advisory, Copenhagen, Denmark), Longinus Rutasitara (University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Onesmo Selejio (University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Neda Trifković (0000-0002-1485-5064, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 513-528 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0376-835X • E-ISSN: 1470-3637 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0376835x.2024.2329555 |
| OpenAlex | W4393202129 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper examines the contribution of household non-farm enterprises (NFEs) to human capital development in children, measured through child labour and schooling. We use nationally representative panel data from Tanzania and control for observed and time-invariant unobserved factors in pooled least squares and household fixed effects estimations. Both contemporaneous and dynamic analyses are performed separately for boys and girls and for different types of NFEs, including those with and without employees, as well as father- and mother-owned NFEs. We find that father-owned and NFEs without employees are associated with less child labour on average. The impacts on schooling are not consistently estimated, except for girls and father-owned NFEs. Less child labour among boys is associated with father’s NFEs and among girls with NFEs hiring employees. Our findings indicate that NFEs may contribute to reducing the child labour problem, but they may be insufficient for resolving low school attendance
Attendance · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Social capital · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Energy and Environment Impacts · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |