IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/cafral/022315.html

Is Better Access To Markets A Substitute For Educated Parents? Evidence From Rural India

Author

Listed:
  • Reshad N. Ahsan

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Arpita Chatterjee

    (University of New South Wales)

  • Shahe Emran

    (Columbia University)

Abstract

This paper focuses on a particularly important channel, human capital investment, through which domestic market integration may affect intergenerational economic mobility. Using household data from India Human Development Survey, our empirical analysis focuses on the rural households. We use two sources of plausibly exogenous variations: (1) historical road infrastructure, and (2) crow-fly distance to the Golden Quadrilateral road network. The estimates from the OLS and 2SLS regressions for the average effect show that better market access improves childrens schooling attainment. More importantly, the interaction of fathers education with market access is negative; better market access thus works as a substitute for a higher educated father. The estimates from IV quantile regressions using the control function approach show that better market access weakens intergenerational persistence the most for the children in the middle of the conditional distribution.

Suggested Citation

  • Reshad N. Ahsan & Arpita Chatterjee & Shahe Emran, 2018. "Is Better Access To Markets A Substitute For Educated Parents? Evidence From Rural India," Working Papers 022315, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL).
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:cafral:022315
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cafral.org.in/sfControl/content/Speech/3252019112730AMWorkingPaperV2.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:cafral:022315. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Vijayshree (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cafrain.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.