TY - JOUR

T1 - Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children

T2 - The case of Tanzania

AU - Brandt, Kasper

AU - Rutasitara, Longinus

AU - Selejio, Onesmo

AU - Trifkovic, Neda

N1 - Funding Information: An earlier version of this paper is available as Brandt, K., Rutasitara, L., Selejio, O. and Trifkovic, N. (2017). Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children. WIDER Working Paper, No. 2017/198, ISBN 978-92-9256-424-7. The authors are grateful to Marcelo Rene Cardona Cabrera for his contribution to the data analysis, Professor Henrik Hansen, Professor John Rand, Professor Finn Tarp, Professor Andy McKay, and participants of the Third Voice of Social Sciences (VSS) International Conference at the University of Dar es Salaam and the Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) in Helsinki for helpful comments. This research is part of the Growth and Development Research Project (GDRP), funded by DANIDA. The GDRP is a collaborative research project between Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. We thank DANIDA for funding, and the GDRP for supporting our project. The usual disclaimer applies. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - child labour

KW - education

KW - household enterprise

KW - Non-farm enterprise

KW - Tanzania

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188593023&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/0376835X.2024.2329555

DO - 10.1080/0376835X.2024.2329555

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85188593023

VL - 41

SP - 513

EP - 528

JO - Development Southern Africa

JF - Development Southern Africa

SN - 0376-835X

IS - 3

ER -