returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …

economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …

expenditures, (2) significant share of education relegating the role of health care and (3) higher priority of transfer payments …-restructuring period indicates the shifting of priority from education and health towards transfer payments in the later than the former … social expenditures, higher priority of education and health and reform in the efficiency criteria used for the devolution of …

implementing policies that not only target the quality and quantity of education, but also change social attitudes in favor of … education and against idleness and child labor. …

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 …

education. It also examines other facets of educational decisions: its cost and components, the choice of educational …

returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …

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 …

attitudes favor education and oppose child labor and idleness. We propose that government intervention be targeted at districts …