states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …

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 broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … 1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … by the observed convergence in returns to education; the endowment effect is driven by faster increase in education …

This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning … rigidity over time and across regions of India. …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …