Will trade sanctions reduce child labour?: The role of credit markets

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The Joint Estimation of Child Participation in Schooling and Employment: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents (2002, unknown): “14 (ix) Jafarey and Lahiri (2000) have, recently, systematically explored the link between credit markets and child labour. The Pakistani and Ghanian data sets provide information on the amount of money lent and borrowed by the households. The effects, even when they are statistically significant, a”
Economics of child labour (2013, methodology): “Although (as mentioned earlier) Jafarey and Lahiri (2002) theoretically demonstrate that countries more open to trade are more likely to have lower interest rates and a developed credit market which lowers the opportunity cost of schooling and thereby reduces child labour.”
Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor (2004, unknown): “This lowers the opportunity cost of education and thereby the incidence of child labor (Ranjan, 2001; Jafarey & Lahiri, 2002).”
Is Child Work Necessary (2007, unknown): “Lahiri and Jaffrey (1999), Ranjan (1999) and Grote, Basu and Weinhold (1998) present models in which child labour arises as the result of imperfect credit markets.”