Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … wisdom, the lower caste individuals enjoy a larger positive effect on salaried employment, despite their unfavorable labor …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … Other Backward Caste households with respect to general category households, and the disadvantage exists across the entire … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …

Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households … households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are …

India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …. -- gender bias ; educational expenditure ; hurdle model ; school choice ; India …

incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring … private tutoring is not a new phenomenon in India: a significant proportion of students at each stage of schooling took …