It is well documented that private school students outperform their public school counterparts in India. However …-private school achievement gap in India by applying nonparametric measures of distributional mobility to panel data on math and … Peabody Picture Vocabulary test scores from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We find that public school students are at …

This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in … points in private school enrollment among children aged 6-16 years. Contrary to the trend in overall enrollment, the gender … gap in private school choice is rising over time, and is more pronounced in villages with larger cost difference between …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …