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This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...
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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …
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points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …
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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we …
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response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …
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I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …
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This paper studies the education gradient associated with health reporting errors for two highly prevalent non … with no schooling and less than middle school education relative to their more highly educated peers. Interestingly, this …
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