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Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Singh, Prakarsh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...

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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532393

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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Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades

Afridi, Farzana; Dinkelman, Taryn; Mahajan, Kanika - 2016

in this rate in 1999-2009. Our findings underscore increasing education levels amongst rural married women and the men in …

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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas

Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007

implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013

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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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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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