in India, we study the role modelling effect of historical statues. Students in the treatment group were exposed to a … models and their statues may attribute to this gender gap in academic performance. …

This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in … India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural households from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India, this … paper estimates a household fixed effects model and finds that there is an intra-household gender bias of 6 percentage …

The paper provides new evidence that there is significant gender gap in private school enrollment in India and that the … gender gap is greater than the national average among children residing in northern and north-western states. Our best … bias arising from any school enrollment. A further investigation into the causes of gender gap in private school enrollment …