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Muneer Kalliylil
Muneer Kalliyil is a doctoral candidate in the economics department at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. In 2022-2023, he was selected for a DAAD-funded PhD Exchange Program in Germany.
Before joining IIM Bangalore, he worked as a Research Fellow at UNICEF India. He obtained an MPhil degree in Planning and Development from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and a Masters in Economics from JMI, Delhi. His research interest lies in economics of education, political economy, and development economics.
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The influence of local politicians in the private education market
Private schooling has experienced rapid expansion in India – both in terms of number of schools and student enrolment. Analysing data from 2005-2017, this article shows that constituencies represented by ruling party-aligned politicians experience significantly higher growth in private schools, relative to those represented by opposition leaders, potentially through the influence exerted by the former over the bureaucracy. However, this does not translate into improvements in educational quality.
