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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility

Piacentini, Mario - 2009

This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling achievements among internal migrants. We test empirically whether young migrants's schooling decisions are affected by the presence of covillagers at destination, using data on...

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Does Private Tutoring Payoff?

Gurun, Ayfer; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2021

We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that tutoring increases the probability of being placed in a university when non-random selection is ignored. Moreover, among those utilizing private tutoring, greater expenditure on...

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Unintended consequences of school accountability reforms : public versus private schools

Coelli, Michael; Foster, Gigi - In: Economics of education review 99 (2024), pp. 1-15

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Understanding the learning gaps between private schools and public schools in Ghana

Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - In: International journal of social economics 49 (2022) 9, pp. 1277-1301

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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 - 2008

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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Quota-Based Affirmative Action in Higher Education : The Impact on Other Backward Classes in India

Basant, Rakesh - 2019

-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India implemented from 2008, which mandates a 27 percent seats to be reserved for …

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Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education : Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized …

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Marketing Practices of Livestock Products by Self Help Groups in Burdwan District of West Bengal

Gupta, Dr. Yashwant; Das, Dipin; Singh, Saurabh - 2012

The self-employment programme of Self Help Groups (SHGs) formed under Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) guide lines, is mainly concentrated on the inputs, rather than the outputs, and their marketing. To study the marketing practices of livestock products by SHGs the data was collected...

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Role of Education in Women Empowerment and Development : Issues and Impact

Shetty, Sowjanya; Hans, V. Basil - 2015

educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. When women who contribute almost half of the population … access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field … of women's education in India. Women have so much unexplored potential which has never been tapped. As education is both …

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Spillovers in Affirmative Action : Evidence from OBC Quotas in India

Bhattacharjee, Arpita - 2019

to continue enrolment in secondary school and complete high-school. In 2008, the central government in India implemented …

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