Modeling the Determinants of Farmersa Decision on Exclusive Schooling and Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of Ghana

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Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere
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D. B. Sarpong
D. B. Sarpong
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C. Y. Okyere
C. Y. Okyere
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A. Mensah-Bonsu
A. Mensah-Bonsu
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S. Asuming-Brempong
S. Asuming-Brempong
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The use of children on cocoa farms in West Africa has received extensive attention over the last few decades due to media coverage in the international press and growing pressure from international organizations such as the International Labor Organization. Based on 2007 cocoa sector survey, the paper used a logistic regression model to determine the factors that significantly affect the decision to let a child attend school exclusively or do some work on the cocoa farm. To enable them develop, children who are in the school-going age are expected to devote their full time to education (and some recreation) and not engage in any type of work. The factors that were found to positively and significantly influence farmer`s decision to let the child attend school exclusively in cocoa communities of Ghana were: main source of drinking water being borehole, sex of a child, age of a child, and household heads living in the Ashanti cocoa region.

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Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere. 1970. \u201cModeling the Determinants of Farmersa Decision on Exclusive Schooling and Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of Ghana\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - E: Economics GJHSS-E Volume 13 (GJHSS Volume 13 Issue E3): .

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The use of children on cocoa farms in West Africa has received extensive attention over the last few decades due to media coverage in the international press and growing pressure from international organizations such as the International Labor Organization. Based on 2007 cocoa sector survey, the paper used a logistic regression model to determine the factors that significantly affect the decision to let a child attend school exclusively or do some work on the cocoa farm. To enable them develop, children who are in the school-going age are expected to devote their full time to education (and some recreation) and not engage in any type of work. The factors that were found to positively and significantly influence farmer`s decision to let the child attend school exclusively in cocoa communities of Ghana were: main source of drinking water being borehole, sex of a child, age of a child, and household heads living in the Ashanti cocoa region.

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Modeling the Determinants of Farmersa Decision on Exclusive Schooling and Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of Ghana

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D. B. Sarpong
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