Child Labor and Schooling Decisions in Urban and Rural Areas: Comparative Evidence from Nepal, Peru, and Zimbabwe

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FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO SCHOOL DROPOUT AMONG THE GIRLS: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE (2015, background): “In general, girls take more load of household chores than the boys and on the other hand rural girls do more household works than urban girls (Ersado, 2005).”
Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi (2008, unknown): “For example, Hazarika and Bedi (2003) find that while children’s extra-household (outside the home) work is positively related to schooling costs in rural Pakistan, children’s intra-household work, the dominant form of child work, is insensitive to changes in the costs of schooling. Similarly, Amin,”
Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor (2008, background): “Hence, the idea that the two are perfect substitutes is plausible for the most common types of work.”