标题： 边际农民家庭的童工与教育决策：来自印度西孟加拉邦东部Medinipur地区的实证证据 显示英文标题

标题： Child labour and schooling decision of the marginal farmer households: An empirical evidence from the East Medinipur district of West Bengal, India

摘要： 基于西孟加拉邦的实地调查，本文研究了边缘农户家庭学龄儿童是否是全职有偿劳动者或在上学的同时担任无偿家务劳动者或常规学生。 在此应用了Probit回归分析，以评估减少实际童工规模的影响因素。 结果表明，家庭中成年人的收入越高，童工的发生率就越低。 此外，母亲从自助小组获得的信贷可及性以及参考年份中父亲的工作人天数也对减少儿童成为劳动力的可能性起到了作用。 该研究进一步建议，父亲较年轻的年龄、父亲的教育水平以及较少的经营土地面积是决定儿童教育的积极且显著的因素，通过限制他们的过度家务负担。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Based on the field investigation of West Bengal, this paper investigates whether the school-aged children of the marginal farmer households are full-time paid labourers or unpaid domestic labourers along with schooling or regular students. Probit Regression analysis is applied here to assess the influencing factors for reducing the size of the child labour force in practice. The result shows that the higher is the earning of the adult members of the households, the lower is the incidence of child labour. Moreover, the credit accessibility of the mother from the Self-help group and more person-days of the father in work in a reference year are also responsible for reducing the possibility of a child turning into labour. The study further suggests that the younger age of the father, education of fathers, and low operational landholdings are positive and significant determinants to decide on a child education by restricting their excessive domestic work burden.