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Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India

Delavallade, Clara; Griffith, Alan; Thornton, Rebecca L. - 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity … in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020

This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia; Tam, Hiu - 2020

-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

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Indiaâ€™s Population: Past, Present and Future

Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the countryâ€™s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...

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Uses and Misuses of Statistics

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2012

Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].

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Child Focussed Questions in Parliament in 2012

HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013

One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How concerned are our parliamentarians about them- after all they represent them too. [HAQCRC].

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State of Literacy among Adolescents and Youth Population

Samal, A.K. - eSocialSciences - 2014

Gives an overall view about the literacy rates of youth and adolescents in India.

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National Urban Transport Policy

eSocialSciences; Ministry of Urban Development GOI - 2011

growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation and such other needs within our cities. URL:[http://urbanindia.nic.in/policies/TransportPolicy.pdf]. …

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Working with Existing Systems: Lessons from INHP

CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009

Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interventions reached massive scale primarily through the ICDS program and were subject to a large...

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GenNext Banking: Issues and Perspectives

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2009

€™s population and the nexus between low dependency ratio and saving. It also provides a projection of Housing and Education Loan …

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