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Primary Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target

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  • Sonia Bhalotra
  • Bernarda Zamora

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This paper uses two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, to describe growth in school enrolment and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and completion rates have grown over time. It decomposes this growth into a component due to changes in the characteristics that determine schooling, and another associated with changes in the responsiveness of schooling to given characteristics.

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  • Sonia Bhalotra & Bernarda Zamora, 2006. "Primary Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-80, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Economic development; Education; Women;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy

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