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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...

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Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar

Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates of educational outcomes. It also surveys the...

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are sizable economic returns to English-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is...

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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … reserved for Scheduled Tribes significantly reduces poverty while increasing the share of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes …

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