variables, teacher profiles and school characteristics, were analyzed to identify appropriate needs-based formula components and …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …

th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …

enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative … school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German …, where the elasticity of the demand for females' education again exceeds that for males'. …