‪Le travail des enfants : uniquement un problème de pauvreté ?‪. Effet de la situation économique des ménages sur le travail des enfants au Cameroun en 2007

This study analyses the determinants of the supply of labour by children aged 5 to 14 in Cameroon while highlighting the effects of vulnerability factors (poverty and negative shocks). The study uses microeconomic data from the third Cameroon Household Survey (CHS III). The bivariate probit model that we use show that, all things being equal, the standard of living measured by income, has a negative effect on child labour, but significantly affects child schooling. However, these effects weaken after the instrumentation of income. Moreover, the shock variables indicate that a sharp fall in income is positively associated with higher frequencies of child labour, meanwhile land ownership, which requires more labour force than income for farming purposes, also tends to increase child labour.