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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284013
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Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525023
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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532393
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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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Returns to education in India
Fulford, Scott Lansing - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2012
Despite the evidence for high returns to education at an individual level, large increases in education across the … problem. In India both men and women with more education live in households with greater consumption per capita. Yet in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939348
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Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552945
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Education policy reforms and the quality of the school system : a field study of primary schools in Madhya Pradesh, India
Leclercq, François - DIAL - 2003
(english) Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing … 2002. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves … more emphasis. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094523
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Barriers to expansion of mass literacy and primary schooling in West Bengal: Study based on primary data from selected villages
Ramachandran, V.K.; Swaminathan, Madhura; Rawal, Vikas - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2003
This paper examines factors affecting literacy and access to school education in West Bengal, India, and reports the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537339
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School participation in rural India
Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745987