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Inheritance of Educational Attainment: Instance of Caste Certificate in India

In: Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies

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  • Rilina Basu

    (Jadavpur University)

  • Poulomi Roy

    (Jadavpur University)

  • Shishir Roy

    (Acharya Prafulla Chandra College)

Abstract

Scheduled castes and tribes have been historically discriminated, excluded and marginalized in India. To promote an egalitarian and inclusive society, the Government has imposed reservation policy to extend opportunities to these “backward” classes in higher education, employment and political representation. In this chapter, we aim to explore the efficacy of such reservation in higher education. While the data shows that enrolment has increased over the years, we aim to investigate intergenerational inertia in educational achievement. We have used transition matrix and regression analysis on the data collected from IHDS data from 2011 to 2012. We build on the methodology in papers by Majumder and Ray (Development and exclusion: Intergenerational stickiness in India (MPRA Paper 71182). University Library of Munich, Germany, 2016) and Long and Ferrie (The American Economic Review 103:1109–1137, 2013). Our analysis suggests that there has been vertical mobility across generations. Third generation is more mobile than the second generation in terms of higher education. With regard to the regression analysis, we obtain that if the father’s educational attainment is in category 2 and beyond, then caste certificate does not have a significant contribution toward upward mobility. So, the possession of caste certificate is crucial in bringing about educational mobility but it is not necessary but it has to be coupled with socioeconomic opportunities like expansion of income, provision of educational infrastructure to facilitate higher education. (a) Identification of exact father–son pairs which was not done in previous research; (b) calculation of distance between two contingency tables using Long and Ferrie (The American Economic Review 103:1109–1137, 2013), Lodh et al. (Indian Economic Review 56(1), 2021), and Altham and Ferrie (Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 40(1), 2007) methodology and (c) exploring the situation in higher education where the instance of reservation policy is more pronounced.

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  • Rilina Basu & Poulomi Roy & Shishir Roy, 2023. "Inheritance of Educational Attainment: Instance of Caste Certificate in India," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Tanmoyee Banerjee Chatterjee & Arpita Ghose & Poulomi Roy (ed.), Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies, pages 313-329, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-99-4063-9_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4063-9_15
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    Keywords

    Intergenerational educational mobility; Higher education; Reservation policy; Caste certificate;
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    JEL classification:

    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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