Ninety five percent of the child labor in Africa takes place in private households where
children are controlled by their relatives. While this is a major problem, the literature
provides little discussion on the determinants of this form of child labor. To fill this gap, I
examine the determinants of farm and non-farm family-controlled child labor using data
from the 2009 Ghana Time Use Survey. The findings indicate that school networks, the
education level of the head of household, and religion play important roles in determining
children’s activities in both farm and non-farm work.