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Normally children's economic value in peasant economy is analysed in terms of their contribution to family farm production. But fcr households with small or no land holding and few assets, opportunities for realizing the economic value of children are restricted. Children from thesee households can make an economic contribution to their families by participating in the wage labour market. Amongst a sample of one hundred poor rural households, fifty-four had children of working age. In thirty-seven of these children worked for earnings off the family farm and contributed thirty-four percent of households income; in the other seventeen, households children did not work. This difference in participation is analysed in relation to economic need of and opportunities for child labour participation in the wage labour market. Finally, the need for a more informed understanding of how landlessness or near landlessness may affect fertility is discussed.

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