Child Schooling in India: Is there any evidence of a gender bias?

Itismita Mohanty () and Anu Rammohan ()
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Anu Rammohan: Economics, The University of Western Australia

No 13/21, NATSEM Working Paper Series from University of Canberra, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse factors that influence schooling outcomes among children in India, specifically focusing on the role of gender. Using the nationally representative Indian National Family Health Survey 2005-06,our analysis finds statistically significant evidence of male advantage both in schooling attendance as well as years of schooling. However, using a cluster fixed-effects model, our analysis finds that within a cluster, contingent on being enrolled, girls spend more years in school relative to boys. Other results show that parental schooling has a positive and statistically significant impact on child schooling. There is also statistically significant wealth effect, community effect and regional disparities between states in India.

Keywords: child schooling; cluster fixed effects; household fixed effects; gender bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 I20 J16 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2013-06
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