The paper provides new evidence that there is significant gender gap in private school enrollment in India and that the … school enrollment among 7-18 year old boys and girls born to the same parents, after correcting for the possible selection … bias arising from any school enrollment. A further investigation into the causes of gender gap in private school enrollment …

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been … to private schools holding other factors constant and controlling for selection into school enrollment, and this … disadvantage is particularly higher for younger girls in the family. The extent of gender bias in private school enrolment is …

Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that the gender of the child is potentially … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …