Subjective returns to education: Rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Pooja Balasubramanian

No wp-2020-107, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste. Despite lower actual returns to education in the labour market, students from Other Backward Castes and Scheduled Castes and Tribes do not have significantly different beliefs relative to their advantaged peers.

Keywords: Labour market discrimination; Social identity; Returns to education; India; Heterogeneity; Distributional regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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