Looking for answers: Researching hazardous work of children

This publication examines how research on children in hazardous work can leverage change. It begins with the premise that all agree: school age children should not be working, they should be in school. In addition, children above the legal age for employment should not do hazardous work. The challenge lies in where to establish the boundaries of safe and hazardous.

This publication aggregates and distills research in order to help answer a few of these questions. It sets out to demonstrate for policy leaders and researchers that the research need to enact change and advise policy and programming decisions is not overly demanding. Effective investigation and research, illustrative quantitative and qualitative analysis, can be effective in reaching project goals.