Demand or supply for schooling in rural India?

Sripad Motiram () and Lars Osberg
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Sripad Motiram: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home instructional time) using the Indian Time Use Survey of 1998-1999 and the 7th All India School Education Survey (AISES). Probit and sample selection bias regression estimates indicate that the influence of supply side factors (school quality and availability) is large relative to the impact of household characteristics (e.g. low income). We discuss the policy implications.

Keywords: Schooling; Human Capital Accumulation; Rural India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2011-05
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