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This paper provides the estimates of average years of schooling in India for individuals aged 15 and above. The …, Government of India. We use the four rounds of employment and unemployment survey conducted in years 1993-94, 1999-2000, 2004 …-05 and 2009-10. We find India’s average attainment is increased by about two years during the period 1993 to 2009 …
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This paper tries to investigate educational preferences of parents over their child's education using survey data from two Indian States. Based on the natural ordering of the preferences, an ordered probit framework is being used. We also examine the presence of gender bias in preference pattern...
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Generally speaking, better educated countries have better governments, an empirical regularity that holds in both dictatorships and democracies. We suggest that a possible reason for this fact is that educated people are more likely to complain about misconduct by government officials, so that,...
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Generally speaking, better educated countries have better governments, an empirical regularity that holds in both dictatorships and democracies. We suggest that a possible reason for this fact is that educated people are more likely to complain about misconduct by government officials, so that,...
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attainment levels between male and female in India is staggering. Reduction in such gap is essential for more than one reason …. Latest population census 2001 indicates considerable difference in literacy rate at all India as well as state level between …
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Organization of India, we compute average years of schooling and estimate the Gini index for the Indian states across various sub …. During the study period of 11 years, average years of schooling in India increased by approximately one year while …
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scale randomized field experiment among 1823 rural government schools in India, in the state of Karnataka, where satellite …
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