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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School … access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the … education will further lift enrolment, bringing closer the government’s goal of universal elementary education, which comprises …
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
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slum children is much lower than that of children in Delhi as a whole. Parental perception of education and financing … education are the major constraints. Even if children are attending schools, the majority of them are over-aged. There are both …
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in education and health indicators of human capital. We use data from various sources to construct a novel state …
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This paper examines the educational attainment and educational inequality for the Indian population aged 15 and above. Using the three recent rounds of nationally representative household survey data carried out by the National Sample Survey Organization of India, we compute average years of...
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Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289920
recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, <p> capital market and parental education …
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