Estimating Regional Returns to Education in India

Prabir Bhattacharya and Takahiro Sato
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Prabir Bhattacharya: Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan, and School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

No DP2017-09, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This study analyzes the effects of socio-economic factors on the real wage rates for male workers in India over the period 1983 to 2010. In particular, we examine the role of human capital by estimating the Mincerian wage equation. We construct a regional level pseudo panel data set for our analysis. Our findings show that while the return to primary education is remarkably high, the returns to other, higher, levels of education are equally remarkably low for all of India taken together, becoming progressively so as the level of education increases. These findings are in contradistinction to those of the other studies on returns to education in India, all of which, however, have relied on cross-sectional data for their analyses. We also find relatively little effects of caste, tribe and religion on real wage rates in India, suggesting that that these factors may not be as important as is sometimes believed.

Keywords: Returns to education; India; Regions; Pseudo-panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2017-03
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