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Are Daughters Like Mothers: Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Young Females in India
Akanksha Choudhary,Ashish Singh +1 more
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In this article, the authors examined intergenerational educational mobility for young females (vis-a-vis their mothers) in India, taking data from the India Youth Survey: Situation and Needs.Abstract:
Taking data from the ‘India Youth Survey: Situation and Needs’ the paper examines intergenerational educational mobility for young females (vis-a-vis their mothers) in India. The paper uses transition/mobility matrices and mobility measures widely used in the literature on intergenerational mobility for the examination. The overall intergenerational educational mobility among the young females in India is about 0.69 (the upper limit being 1). The upwards component of the overall intergenerational educational mobility is 0.55 (that is, nearly four-fifth of the overall). Also, the intergenerational educational mobility is slightly higher in the ‘Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/ST)’ compared to the ‘Other Backward Castes (OBC)’ as well as ‘Others’ castes. But the upward mobility is substantially higher in the ‘Others’ caste group compared to SC/STs. The upward mobility among the OBCs is higher than that of SC/STs but lower than that of the ‘Others’ category. Also, the overall mobility as well as upward mobility is higher in urban areas. Moreover, there are large inter-state variations with the economically and demographically poorer states having substantially lower overall as well as upward mobility than the economically and demographically advanced states.read more
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Do Indian daughters shadow their mothers?: A case of intergenerational educational mobility among women
Akanksha Choudhary,Ashish Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used transition/mobility matrices and multiple mobility measures for the examination of intergenerational educational mobility among women (15-49 years) in India.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the association between changes in anemia and physical growth during adolescence and learning outcomes using longitudinal data from the Understanding the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults (UDAYA) project.
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Changes in anemia and anthropometry during adolescence predict learning outcomes: findings from a 3-year longitudinal study in India
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Experience of Domestic Violence by Young Women in India: Does the Nature of Occupation Play Any Role?
Akanksha Choudhary,Ashish Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how young women's nature of occupation affects the domestic violence experienced by them and found that women in agricultural/non-agricultural labor activities have significantly higher chances of experiencing domestic violence compared to women who are either housewives or unemployed, and women whose mothers have experienced domestic violence are at a substantially higher risk of experiencing the same.
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