Using the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar Living-Standard Measurement Survey (1997) this paper examines the factors that have created a wedge in the grade completion levels of the male and the female children. Our study reveals that in the context of educational outcomes, the birth order of the child as...

This paper examines the households' preferences for the public school, the private school and the no-schooling option in rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The results reveal that the quality of the local public schools and the costs of attendance have distinct effects on the school choice in the...

This paper considers the effect of agrarian reforms on rioting in India. I find that the adoption of agrarian reforms was associated with a decline in the overall riot rate but the Hindu–Muslim riot rate, an urban phenomenon was largely unaffected by the program.