Tag Search: “schooling”
Good monsoon, bad test scores? Substituting away from schooling
Good monsoons in India raise agricultural productivity and hence, bring added work and higher wages. Is this extra work at the expense of schooling for poor children? This column finds that increased ...
- Manisha Shah Bryce Millett Steinberg
- 27 June, 2017
- Articles
Kanyashree Prakalpa in West Bengal: Justification and evaluation
Kanyasree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme of the Government of West Bengal that offers scholarship to adolescent girls for continuing education and remaining unmarried until the age of ...
- Arijita Dutta Anindita Sen
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Risks and Investment in Education
This project analysed the effects of household income risk on schooling investment in rural India. The findings from this project suggest that income risk faced by poorer households is an important re...
- Tanuka Endow Alok Kumar
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Common tongue? How mother tongue instruction influences education
The recently released draft of the National Education Policy stresses the importance of education in the mother tongue, especially in the formative years at school. This column seeks to uncover the li...
- Tarun Jain Revathy Suryanarayana
- 27 February, 2017
- Perspectives
School consolidation in Himachal Pradesh: Achieving quality and inclusion
While the emphasis on neighbourhood schooling in India’s education policy over the past 15 years has increased enrolment, it has also contributed to a proliferation of poor quality, small schools. To ...
- Shrikant Wad
- 06 January, 2017
- Perspectives
Improving School Governance at Scale: A Randomised Evaluation of the Madhya Pradesh School Quality Assessment Programme
Weak governance is a critical constraint in delivering quality education in developing countries. This project conducts a randomised evaluation of one of the most ambitious recent attempts by a develo...
- Karthik Muralidharan Abhijeet Singh
- 31 October, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Whither female disadvantage? An analysis of private school enrolment in India
Given the poor condition of government schools and the perceived efficiency of private schools, Indian parents are increasingly choosing to send their children to private schools. This column examines...
- Pushkar Maitra Sarmistha Pal Anurag Sharma
- 07 October, 2016
- Articles
What are schools worth?
Since large-scale expansions in education impact both individual behaviours and labour markets, convincing causal estimates of their overall benefits are hard to generate. Analysing the overall econom...
- Gaurav Khanna
- 01 June, 2016
- Articles
Early life nutrition and future educational outcomes: Findings from ICDS
Integrated Child Development Services – India’s flagship child nutrition programme – has recently suffered a major cut in funding. This column shows that supplementary nutrition provided under the pro...
- Ramanan Laxminarayan Arindam Nandi
- 25 April, 2016
- Articles
The less the merrier? Family size and education in India
In the face of financial constraints, children from larger families are expected to have relatively less education and poor health. This column explores the empirical relevance this ‘quantity-quality ...
- Adriana Kugler Santosh Kumar
- 01 April, 2016
- Articles
How has MNREGA impacted the lives of women and children in India?
In this article, Subha Mani, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, summarises evidence that shows that MNREGA has mostly positively impacted the lives of women and children in India.
- Subha Mani
- 15 March, 2016
- Articles
Reservation under RTE: Status of implementation and way forward
Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, 2009, mandates that non-minority private unaided schools should reserve at least 25% of seats in entry-level grades for children from economically weak...
- Ambrish Dongre Ankur Sarin
- 11 January, 2016
- Articles