In this paper, we study the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the provision of private and public schools, separately. The distinction is made because the two types of schools have different objective functions, a factor which can influence the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and...

This paper studies the effect of exogenous demand shocks on supply of schools in a market with both private and public schools. Using an all India school level panel constructed from an administrative dataset, we show that negative rainfall shocks increase the likelihood of private school...

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However, estimation of transition matrices is complicated by the...