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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010
schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011584
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Education policies and practices : what have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548073
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Cycling to school : increasing secondary school enrollment for girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793460
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Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India
Kumar, Santosh; Prakash, Nishith - 2017
institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664354
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Skills training and employment outcomes in rural Bihar
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2017
participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709385
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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758959
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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy
Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760072
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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008
Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760317
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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor);  … - 2006
the activities. Analyses of data from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two Northern Indian states, reveal a positive relation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323155
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Sibling death clustering in India : state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor);  … - 2006
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355648