Using the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar Living-Standard Measurement Survey (1997) this paper examines the factors that have created a wedge in the grade completion levels of the male and the female children. Our study reveals that in the context of educational outcomes, the birth order of the child as...

Using a probit and censored ordered probit model of school completion we identify some state-specific factors influencing primary and middle school graduation probabilities of male and female children in two north-Indian states: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. We find that education of the parents,...