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Can private school growth foster universal literacy? : panel evidence from Indian districts
Pal, Sarmistha; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2010
this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a … for the findings. -- private school growth ; universal literacy ; gender gap ; Millennium Development Goals ; India, Asia …
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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Revisiting the Role of Private Schooling on Children Learning Outcomes : Evidence from Rural India
Singhal, Karan - 2017
learning outcomes. In the view of increasing preference of private primary schooling in India, using instrument variable …-random selection of children attending private schools and then presents an all-India estimate unlike most studies which have dealt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953873
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Direct and indirect effects of the Right to Education Act on the enrolment of disadvantaged groups in India
Vinod, Athira - 2024
Using longitudinal school data from India, this paper examines enrolment trends of socially disadvantaged children post …
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Affirmative action and private education expenditure by disadvantaged groups : evidence from India
Vinod, Athira - 2024
Under the Right to Education Act (2009), the Indian government introduced a policy that required private schools to reserve 25% of primary school places for children from socially disadvantaged households. This paper examines the impact of the RTE Act's reservation policy on private school...
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Measuring the Dynamics of the Achievement Gap Between Public and Private School Students During Early Life in India
McDonough, Ian; Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dhamija, Gaurav - 2021
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 …
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Preschool education in Brazil : does public supply crowd out private enrollment?
Bastos, Paulo; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013
This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246483
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Preschool Education in Brazil : Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?
Bastos, Paulo - 2013
This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071708
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The effects of school libraries on language skills : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085045