IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rmdjxx/v16y2024i1p27-54.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

School performance and child paid work: evidence from West Bank schools

Author

Listed:
  • Sameh Hallaq
  • Ayman Khalifah

Abstract

The current study aims to investigate the impact of academic achievement on child labor. The study utilizes survey data collected from Palestinian children in the primary grades (5th–9th) in West Bank schools. The results show that increasing a child’s academic achievement is significantly associated with decreasing the probability of a child’s paid work in the following period. Our findings varied among children according to their gender, age, and locality type. Our analyses are subject to different specifications, including two-stage least squares (2SLS) to account for potential endogeneity. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the opportunity cost of dropping out of school is low for students with poor school outcomes. Further analysis indicates the role of the family-supportive environment as a mediator between academic success and child labor-supply decisions.

Suggested Citation

  • Sameh Hallaq & Ayman Khalifah, 2024. "School performance and child paid work: evidence from West Bank schools," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 27-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:16:y:2024:i:1:p:27-54
    DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2023.2275485
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17938120.2023.2275485
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17938120.2023.2275485?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:16:y:2024:i:1:p:27-54. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rmdj .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.