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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...

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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007

, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …

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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than … by economic push factors and social status effects. Only at the highest education levels do we see evidence of pull …

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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar

Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …

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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

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Remember when it rained: The elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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The Indian ultrasound paradox

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Rosenblum, Daniel - 2012

The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant women rose dramatically in many parts of India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences...

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