Tag Search: “schooling”
The power of school feeding programmes to improve nutrition
India has the world’s highest number of undernourished children and the largest school-feeding programme – the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme – but limited evidence is available on the intergenerational im...
- Harold Alderman Suman Chakrabarti Daniel Gilligan Purnima Menon Samuel Scott
- 04 August, 2021
- Articles
Start what you finish! Risk and schooling investments
Economic shocks prompt parents to work more in order to reduce the fallout, and children may spend more time helping in the household or on the family farm, thereby interrupting their schooling. Analy...
- Andrew Foster Esther Gehrke
- 19 July, 2021
- Articles
Grandads, dads, and sons: Examining multigenerational mobility in India
While studies have examined the association in socioeconomic status between parent and offspring, there has been relatively little research on multigenerational mobility, especially in the developing ...
- Anustup Kundu Kunal Sen
- 05 July, 2021
- Articles
Does gender (still) determine destiny in India?
Emerging evidence of convergence in educational attainment between girls and boys seems at odds with a large body of research on gender-based discrimination against girls in India. In this context, th...
- M. Shahe Emran Hanchen Jiang Forhad Shilpi
- 21 May, 2021
- Articles
Dynamics of achievement gap between public and private school students
The achievement gap between public and private school students is well-documented in the literature on education in India, but there has not been sufficient focus on the dynamics of this gap over time...
- Gaurav Dhamija Ian K. McDonough Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 19 April, 2021
- Articles
Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes
Studies have found positive effects of teacher-student gender matching on students’ learning outcomes in certain countries. Based on a theoretical model – tested empirically with survey data from Andh...
- Sukanta Bhattacharya Aparajita Dasgupta Kumarjit Mandal Anirban Mukherjee
- 22 March, 2021
- Articles
Matter of mobility: Barriers to women’s work and education, and the dangers at home
As countries across the world implemented lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, both women and men have been largely confined to their homes but with differential impacts. In this post, Nikita...
- Nikita Sharma
- 16 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19 and schooling: 2020 experience and way forward
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it significant challenges for the education sector. On the one hand, closing schools meant imposing a heavy cost on a whole generation of students, and ...
- Rukmini Banerji Ashok Kotwal Wilima Wadhwa
- 24 January, 2021
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International Day of Education
24 January is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education, to highlight the importance of education for sustainable development and to promote universal, equitable, and inclus...
- I4I Team
- 22 January, 2021
- Perspectives
Does non-farm growth in rural areas reduce intergenerational educational mobility?
While the growth of the non-farm sector in a rural economy is known to reduce poverty, it may also exacerbate inequality. Comparing rural India and rural China the study finds that there is lower inte...
- M. Shahe Emran Francisco Ferreira Yajing Jiang Yan Sun
- 04 January, 2021
- Articles
Designing incentives for mid-level officials in India's public sector
In the Indian public education system, block/cluster resource persons are mid-level officials who are responsible for monitoring the performance of teachers. In this note, Vivek et al. discuss their e...
- Pradyumna Bhattacharjee Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Kumar Vivek
- 18 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Teacher accountability: Non-teaching work over classroom engagement
While the Right to Education Act, 2009 mandates 200 days of teaching for primary classes, the actual number seems to be much lower in government schools. Based on qualitative fieldwork and a survey in...
- Indira Patil
- 22 October, 2020
- Notes from the Field