Primary Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target

Sonia Bhalotra and Bernarda Zamora Talaya

No RP2006-80, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper uses two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, to describe growth in school enrolment and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and completion rates have grown over time. It decomposes this growth into a component due to changes in the characteristics that determine schooling, and another associated with changes in the responsiveness of schooling to given characteristics.

Keywords: Economic development; Education; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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