Does Higher level of Education Reduce Poverty and Increase Inequality? Evidence from Urban India

Sabyasachi Tripathi

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Abstract: By considering India’s 52 large urban agglomerations, this paper finds the relationship between higher level of education and poverty and inequality in urban India. Besides using city level education data from University Grants commission (UGC), the study uses two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS) unit-level data on “consumption expenditure,” and “employment and unemployment” for the year 2011-12. An empirical analysis using OLS regression method has shown that city level education, proxied by city-wise total number of PhD students enrolled in the universities, has a negative impact on city level poverty rate as seen by poverty head-count ratio, poverty gap ratio, and squared poverty gap ratio. On the other hand, city level education has a positive impact on city level inequality. City-wise work force participation rate has a negative effect on city poverty rate. The article suggests that we need appropriate city level policy to promote higher level education for reduction in city level inequality and poverty rate for sustainable urban development in India.

Keywords: Level of higher education; large agglomerations; poverty; inequality and Urban India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 I32 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09-25
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