Synopsis Economics of Child Labour is an edited volume arising out of selected papers presented in the 83rd Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Jammu University, Jammu during December, 30,31,2000 and January 1, 2001. This volume contains altogether 15 articles authored respectively by S. Mahendra Dev, P.K. Chatterjee and Arun K. Nandi, Adwait Mohanty and Mihir K. Mahapatra, T. Prabha, Nisar A. Khan and Mohd. Haroon, Poushali Majumdar, Biswajit Guha, K.N. Bhatt, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon and Aparna Arora, N. Manimekalai, P.K. Pal and D.P. Pal , Anju Kohli and Sadhna Kothari, Arindam K.Sen and Mausumi Manna, Swagata Das (Bhowmic), Santanu Ghosh, Nandini Daniari and Samit Chattopadhyay, K. Pazhani. It also contains a Foreword by IEA President Prof.G.S. Bhalla, Preface by IEA Secretary and Treasurer Prof. Raj Kumar Sen and an Introduction by Prof. K.P. Kannan.