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Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133281
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Extended Families and Child Well-being
LaFave, Daniel; Thomas, Duncan - eSocialSciences - 2014
relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026234
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Institutional Influences on Human Capital Accumulation: Micro Evidence from Children Vulnerable to Bondage
Edmonds, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines child labour, lower schooling attendance and attainment, and significantly elevated fertility in families vulnerable to debt bondage.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528288
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Are Gender Differentials in Educational Capabilities Mediated through Institutions of Caste and Religion in India?
Unni, Jeemol - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, with empirical data, the Capabilities Approach to identify 'conversion factors' that are not typically addressed in the utility approach is used. The two approaches are juxtaposed to examine how institutions such as caste and religion mediate access and returns to education of men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566188
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Children not included in "Inclusive‟ Budget: Where is the "Aam Bachcha†in the Budget, Mr FM?
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2010
Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464833
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality
Das, Mausumi; Chakraborty, Shankha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. Health human capital is introduced into a two-period overlapping generations model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543124
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133273
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From Income to Urban Contest in Global Settings: Chronic Poverty in Bangalore
Benjamin, Solomon - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512435
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A Report of Fact Finding Team on Children Rescued from Zari Industry, Delhi and Restored in Their Families in Various Districts in Bihar
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2009
Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Zari industry in June 2005 and January 2006 by … adopt for procuring children from the source area and their proximity to the vulnerable families in order to assess the … possibilities and threats of children being re-trafficked. The ability of the traffickers to constantly lure young children in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512447