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Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time?
Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta G. - 2019
This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141306
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Has gender bias in intra-household allocation of education in rural India fallen over time? : a comparison of 1995 and 2017
Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2022
rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272270
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Gender bias in intra-household allocation of education in India: has it fallen over time?
Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2019
This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121656
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020
India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence rejects the linear CEF, both in rural and urban … India, in favor of a concave relation. The girls face lower mobility irrespective of location in India when born to fathers … urban China, and urban and rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girls and unfavorable school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176814
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Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2021
, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491314
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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021
, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496682
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girlsand unfavorable school environment. There is some … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177399
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MULTIVARIATE TOBIT SYSTEM ESTIMATION OF EDUCATION EXPENDITURE IN URBAN CHINA
DENG, QUHENG; XUE, JINJUN - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 01, pp. 1450005-1
Using the 2007 education survey data in urban China, this paper measures the inequality of education expenditures, an indicator of education inequality, and analyzes the effect of household income on the components of education expenditures. Since the components of education expenditure are...
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Education Transfers, expenditures and child labour supply in Indonesia: An evaluationof impacts and flypaper effects
Sumarto, Sudarno; de Silva, Indunil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper we investigate how the receipt of educational transfers, scholarships and related assistance programmes affects the labour supply of children and the marginal spending behaviour of households on children’s educational goods. We use a nationally representative household survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107474
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Fetal pollution exposure, cognitive ability, and gender-specific parental investment
Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Hu, Xingyi; Chen, Xi - 2024
This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on low-stakes test performance across a broad age range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062058