Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals’ domestic tourism participation …

incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring … India for some time at each stage of schooling. Students in urban areas and private schools are not only more likely to take …

Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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 …

to tertiary (higher) education in India from 1983 to 2005. The findings suggest that there has been considerable progress …

Using micro data for India from 1983 to 2005, this paper finds that the tertiary (college)-secondary (high school) wage … premium has been increasing in India over the past decade and that this increase differs across age groups. The increase in …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …