Inheritance of Educational Attainment: Instance of Caste Certificate in India

Rilina Basu (), Poulomi Roy () and Shishir Roy ()
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Rilina Basu: Jadavpur University
Poulomi Roy: Jadavpur University
Shishir Roy: Acharya Prafulla Chandra College

A chapter in Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies, 2023, pp 313-329 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Scheduled castes and tribes have been historically discriminated, excluded and marginalized in India. To promote an egalitarian and inclusive society, the Government has imposed reservation policy to extend opportunities to these “backward” classes in higher education, employment and political representation. In this chapter, we aim to explore the efficacy of such reservation in higher education. While the data shows that enrolment has increased over the years, we aim to investigate intergenerational inertia in educational achievement. We have used transition matrix and regression analysis on the data collected from IHDS data from 2011 to 2012. We build on the methodology in papers by Majumder and Ray (Development and exclusion: Intergenerational stickiness in India (MPRA Paper 71182). University Library of Munich, Germany, 2016) and Long and Ferrie (The American Economic Review 103:1109–1137, 2013). Our analysis suggests that there has been vertical mobility across generations. Third generation is more mobile than the second generation in terms of higher education. With regard to the regression analysis, we obtain that if the father’s educational attainment is in category 2 and beyond, then caste certificate does not have a significant contribution toward upward mobility. So, the possession of caste certificate is crucial in bringing about educational mobility but it is not necessary but it has to be coupled with socioeconomic opportunities like expansion of income, provision of educational infrastructure to facilitate higher education. (a) Identification of exact father–son pairs which was not done in previous research; (b) calculation of distance between two contingency tables using Long and Ferrie (The American Economic Review 103:1109–1137, 2013), Lodh et al. (Indian Economic Review 56(1), 2021), and Altham and Ferrie (Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 40(1), 2007) methodology and (c) exploring the situation in higher education where the instance of reservation policy is more pronounced.

Keywords: Intergenerational educational mobility; Higher education; Reservation policy; Caste certificate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I28 J15 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4063-9_15

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