Impact of child-youth labor on school performance for urban Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Mattei, Taíse Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: da Cunha, Marina Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos em Avaliação Educacional
• Texto Completo: https://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/eae/article/view/7159
• topic: Child Labor; Evaluation; Propensity Score Matching; Social Impact; Trabalho Infantil; Avaliação; Propensity Score Matching; Impacto Social; Trabajo Infantil; Evaluación; Propensity Score Matching; Impacto Social

This article assesses the impact of child and youth labor on school performance, using data from the 2017 SAEB for students in the 5th and 9th years of elementary school and the 3rd year of high school. The data were stratified by geographic regions and by gender, and used Propensity Score Matching as an estimation strategy. Reports indicate that child and youth labor affected grades in Portuguese more negatively than in mathematics. The negative impact was greater on the school performance of 5th year students, indicating that working is more harmful in the early years. In addition, the negative effect of child and youth labor was similar across all regions, although school performance is lower in the North and Northeast. Thus, the evidence suggests that child and youth labor is still a reality in Brazil and that it can undermine investments in human capital.