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Child work and schooling in Bangladesh: the role of birth order

Rasheda Khanam1, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman

  • 1Discipline of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Journal of Biosocial Science
|March 27, 2007
PubMed

Insights

First-born children in Bangladesh are more likely to work or combine work with study. Later-born children have a higher probability of focusing solely on education, influencing child activity choices.

Area of Science:

  • Socioeconomic factors
  • Child development
  • Educational attainment

Background:

  • Parental decisions significantly shape children's engagement in education and labor.
  • Understanding the influence of birth order on these decisions is crucial for policy development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between a child's birth order and parental decisions regarding their engagement in 'study only', 'study and work', 'neither work nor study', or 'work only'.
  • To analyze how birth order affects the allocation of children's time between educational and economic activities in Bangladesh.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized multinomial logit model to analyze data from Bangladesh.
  • Examined the probability of children participating in four distinct activity categories based on birth order.

Main Results:

  • First-born children are more likely to engage in work as their primary activity or a combination of study and work.
  • Later-born children show a greater propensity towards 'study only' compared to their earlier-born siblings.
  • Birth order significantly influences the distribution of children across different activity types.

Conclusions:

  • Parental decisions on child activities are demonstrably influenced by birth order.
  • Interventions aimed at improving educational access and outcomes should consider the role of birth order, particularly for first-born children.

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