This study documents the size and nature of Hindu-Muslim and boy-girl gaps in children's school participation and … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

This study documents the size and nature of "boy-girl" and "Hindu-Muslim" gaps in children's school participation and … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socioeconomic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to … for each year of exposure to a positive rainfall shock from ages 11-13. We show that children are switching out of school … fairly young children, is an important factor in determining overall human capital investment. …