Mehtabul Azam

TL;DR: This article found that hourly wages are on average 34% higher for men who speak fluent English compared to men who do not speak English, while the complementarity between English skills and education appears to have strengthened over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of NREGA on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased implementation across Indian districts is assessed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the issue of intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas and utilized a Hurdle model to disentangle the decision to enroll (incur any educational expenditure) and the decision of how much to spend on education, conditional on enrolling.

TL;DR: This paper found that although significant progress in gender equality in education was achieved during 1993-2005, pro-male gender bias still exists in the within-household allocation of educational expenditure, primarily through differential spending on sons and daughters in primary and middle school age groups, but through the decision to enroll sons and not daughters in the secondary school age group.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unique son-father matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population (aged 20-65) in India was used to document the evolution of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in India over time, among different castes, and states for the birth cohorts of 1940-85.