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Aspirations, Poverty and Education : Evidence from India
Serneels, Pieter M. - 2020
This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find that mother aspirations are strongly related to the child's grade achieved at age 18. The relation is nonlinear, suggesting there is a threshold, and depends on caste, household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822862
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Access to Schools & Intergenerational Human Capital : Evidence from India
Sunder, Naveen - 2018
This paper examines the impact of a large scale school construction program in India, the District Primary Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932251
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Family Expenditure on Higher Engineering Education in India and its Determinants
Tilak, Jandhyala BG - 2021
Research on family expenditures on education in India is not abundant; and research on the determinants of family … collected from about 7,000 students studying in forty-eight engineering institutions in four states in India, it is attempted in … family expenditures on engineering education in India. The paper is a modest but an important addition to the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214784
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Locus of control and human capital investment decisions : the role of effort, parental preferences and financial constraints
Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert János - 2020
We study the relationship between locus of control (LoC) and human capital investment decisions in the adolescence, using PDS lasso to exploit high-dimensional data. While LoC is not significantly associated with graduation from high school once we use exogenous controls, it correlates strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439890
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Improving Human Capital Formation in India
Dougherty, Sean - 2008
policy in most countries. In India, the government is active in both education and health but the private sector also plays … formation. This working Paper relates to the 2007 Economic Survey of India (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/india). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443093
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Here comes the rain again: productivity shocks, educational investments and child work
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti; Sunder, Naveen - 2020
survey in India to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks - as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242346
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Aspirations, poverty and education: evidence from India
Serneels, Pieter; Dercon, Stefan - 2020
This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find that mother aspirations are strongly related to the child's grade achieved at age 18. The relation is nonlinear, suggesting there is a threshold, and depends on caste, household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290816
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Political Inclusion and Educational Investment : Estimates from a National Policy Experiment in India
O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2018
implementation of seat quotas for women applied to a three-tiered local governance structure in India. Enrollment effects were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912740
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Whither Human Capital? The Woeful Tale of Transition to Tertiary Education in India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2011
In this paper we examine the issue of high dropout rates in India which has adverse implications for human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178506
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Child Poverty and Compulsory Elementary Education in India : Policy Insights from Household Data Analysis
Chaudhri, Dharam Pal; Jha, Raghbendra - 2014
. The paper uses household level data for 2004-05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993-94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also major … transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961-2001. Changes in the … at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185244