Research Article

Incidence of Child Labour and Child Schooling in India: Pattern and Determinants

Table 6

Pooled regression results.

VariableIncidence of child labourIncidence of dropout
Coefficientz-statisticCoefficientz-statistic

REG0.072.91*0.041.39
SEX−0.17−8.56*−0.21−9.34*
HH−0.08−21.92*−0.13−28.84*
MPCE0.00−31.85*0.00−26.65*
𝐶 1 −0.10−3.55*−0.23−7.09*
𝐶 2 −0.41−13.87*−0.43−13.21*
𝐶 3 −0.28−11.76*−0.32−12.24*
R0.010.610.020.58
FEDU1−0.44−20.39*−0.32−13.03*
FEDU2−0.81−16.77*−0.65−13.31*
MEDU1−0.45−16.32*−0.32−11.11*
MEDU2−0.84−7.93*−0.55−6.83*
Number of obsn.9856898568
Sum squared residuals1397.7232035.426
Log likelihood−7276.151-9298.472

*Significant at 1%.