this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a … for the findings. -- private school growth ; universal literacy ; gender gap ; Millennium Development Goals ; India, Asia …

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 …

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

paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young …

rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change …

This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India … has important policy implications for pupil teacher ratios (PTRs) and thus for teacher appointments in India, based on … considerations of cost-effectiveness. When generalised, our findings suggest that India experienced a value-subtraction from spending …

This paper examines the widespread perception in India that the country has an acute teacher shortage of about one … million teachers in public elementary schools, a view repeated in India's National Education Policy 2020. Using official DISE …

and a corresponding rapid shrinkage in the size of the government school sector in India, suggesting parental abandonment …

This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India. …