The Puzzle of 'Idle' Children: Neither in School nor performing Economic Activity: Evidence from six Countries

Abstract

This paper presents a set of descriptive statistics on the observed group of children \nthat neither attends school nor performs economic activity. Drawing on datasets from \nsix countries, evidence is provided suggesting that children can be absent from both \nschool and economic activity because they are needed to perform household chores, \nbecause of their health, or because they are unable to find work after having left \nschool. But a large proportion of children not in school or economic activity does not \nfall into any of these categories. A simple theoretical model of household decisions \nconcerning children’s time allocations is presented in an attempt to account for this \n“unexplained” portion of the group of children absent from school and economic \nactivity.

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