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Item Restricted School access as a determinant of the incidence of working children(2016) De la Paz, Gian Niccolo Antonio H. ; Liao, Jude Manuel SP III; Magno, Cielo D.This paper discusses the relationship between the incidence of working children in the Philippines and household school access. In the Philippines alone, 5.49 million children are engaged in labor (SOC, 2011). These children and their families are presented with a decision of engaging in labor and/or schooling. Filipino families generally value both education and labor. This study utilizes a probit regression analysis to establish a possible correlation between the incidence of working children and access to schools. Together with this, different independent variables are included as well to test the different factors that may also affect child labor and children engaging in work. The study focuses on household respondents with children ages 5 to 17 years old of the Annual Poverty Incidence Survey 2013 of the Philippines. Variables such as presence of working children, area covered by public schools per province, and household, provincial and geographic characteristics were regressed to identify factors that may affect the incidence of working children in Filipino households.Item Restricted The impact of disasters on child labor cases in the Philippines(2015-06) Salvacion, Miguel Karlo D.; Viloria, Cyvil Mariel M.; Arcenas, Agustin C.This research aims to analyse the effects of disasters and other household characteristics on the decision making of a household unit to deploy children into the labor force; and to determine the impact of disasters - which is measured by its costs of damages - on working members of a household aged five to seventeen years old. With the use of the Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS 2011), the study uses a binary logistic regression in order to assess if a household, which is affected by a disaster shock, considers child labor to be a short-term mechanism to cope with the unforeseen losses. Assuming that household heads have only two alternatives in determining the activities of children in the family - study or work - results show that the odds of deciding whether to send a child to join the labor force or continue child's schooling are equal. Explanatory variables such as household net income from entrepreneurial activities, family size and ownership of agricultural land showed a significant and directly proportional effect on child labor cases. An increase in these variables results in a greater likelihood of child labor participation. On the other hand, information on disaster shocks may be further developed so as to fully present the expected outcome, that it is indeed a determinant of child employment.