We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … in the household in the two cross sections. Child poverty rates exceed those for the whole population. The number of … children in the household depends on the number of women in child-bearing age and their distribution across this age group …

over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a … independently to completing a given number of years in school. Household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender …This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within …