Open AccessPosted Content
School Participation in Rural India
Jean Drèze,Geeta Kingdon +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors present an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher posting, teacher regularity and mid-day meals.Abstract:
This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher posting , teacher regularity and mid-day meals. The remarkable lead achieved by the state of Himachal Pradesh is fully accounted for by these variables. School quality matters, but it is not related in a simply way to specific inputs.read more
Citations
More filters
Learning from the voices of first generation learners in a remote community of Maharashtra, India
Ratika Malkani,Richard Rose +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the opportunities and challenges faced by first generation learners, all of whom were designated as being from scheduled tribes and scheduled castes, accessing education in a rural community in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Journal ArticleDOI
Muslims of West Bengal: An Analysis of the Educational Status of a Minority Community in India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the regional imbalances in the distributional pattern of Muslims, including the trend of the Muslim population over the past century and in the future and the concentration patterns of the Muslims population across the state, in the context of developing an educational profile of Muslims in West Bengal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sociology of Exclusion: Dalits in East Uttar Pradesh:
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-regional study of India is presented, showing that social reality in India is pre-determined by a hierarchy of caste and class that denies rights to people living at the bottom of the Hindu social order.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Determinants of Child Labour: The Role of Primary Product Specialization
TL;DR: The authors showed that lack of bargaining power in the value chain significantly reduces the capacity for obtaining benefits from increased product demand arising from trade liberalization and therefore is positively associated with child labour.
Caste, Gender and School Enrollment: Evidence from the Nepalese Living Standard Survey
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the role of community eects - ethnic composition of the community and aggregate level of village development - on the probability of school enrollment among the low-caste girls in rural Nepal.
References
More filters
Posted Content
The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that public and professional interest in education is likely to be short-lived, doomed to dissipate as frustration over the inability of policy to improve school practice sets in.
Journal ArticleDOI
An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
TL;DR: The authors illustrates the danger of spurious regression from this kind of misspecification, using as an example a wage regression estimated on data for individual workers that includes in the specification aggregate regressors for characteristics of geographical states.
Book
The analysis of household surveys
TL;DR: Deaton as discussed by the authors reviewed the analysis of household survey data, including the construction of household surveys, the econometric tools useful for such analysis, and a range of problems in development policy for which this survey analysis can be applied.
Posted Content
Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement
Joshua D. Angrist,Victor Lavy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of class size on student achievement has been investigated in the context of test scores of Israeli 4th and 5th graders and 3rd graders.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Effect of Primary-School Quality on Academic Achievement across Twenty-nine High- and Low-Income Countries
TL;DR: Diverse influences on pupil achievement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East is explored to conclude that the predominant influence on student learning is the quality of the schools and teachers to which children are exposed.