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Gender Differentials in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: New Evidence from an Indian Youth Study

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  • Ashish Singh

    (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)

  • Abhishek Singh

    (International Institute for Populations Sciences, Mumbai, India)

  • Saseendran Pallikadavath

    (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK)

  • Faujdar Ram

    (International Institute for Populations Sciences, Mumbai, India)

Abstract

Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this article provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for six Indian states. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) that among males. Further, among females, only 20 per cent of total schooling opportunities needed for universal completion of secondary schooling are available and equitably distributed, a figure substantially lower than that for males (35 per cent). We also find stark inter-state variations in gender differential in inequality of educational opportunities.

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  • Ashish Singh & Abhishek Singh & Saseendran Pallikadavath & Faujdar Ram, 2014. "Gender Differentials in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: New Evidence from an Indian Youth Study," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 26(5), pages 707-724, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:26:y:2014:i:5:p:707-724
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    1. Akanksha Choudhary & Gowtham T. Muthukkumaran & Ashish Singh, 2019. "Inequality of Opportunity in Indian Women," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 145(1), pages 389-413, August.
    2. Asadullah, M. Niaz & Trannoy, Alain & Tubeuf, Sandy & Yalonetzky, Gaston, 2021. "Measuring educational inequality of opportunity: pupil’s effort matters," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 138(C).
    3. Chandan Sharma & Sudharshan Reddy Paramati, 2018. "Measuring Inequality of Opportunity for the Backward Communities: Regional Evidence from the Indian Labour Market," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 138(2), pages 479-503, July.
    4. Akanksha Choudhary & Ashish Singh, 2017. "Are Daughters Like Mothers: Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Young Females in India," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 133(2), pages 601-621, September.
    5. Tista Kundu, 2023. "Inequality of Opportunity in Elementary Level School Education: Evidence from India," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 17(2), pages 253-270, August.

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