UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time?

Datta, S; Kingdon, GG; (2019) Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time? (IZA Discussion Paper 12671). IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: Bonn, Germany. Green open access

[thumbnail of Gender Bias paper - Downloaded IZA Discussion Paper 12671.pdf]
Preview
Text
Gender Bias paper - Downloaded IZA Discussion Paper 12671.pdf

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 to 2014. We find that instead of falling over time, the channel through which gender bias is practiced changed dramatically over the 20 years. Secondly, the paper demonstrates the usefulness of distinguishing between the two potential channels of gender bias, namely bias in the school enrolment decision, and bias in the conditional educational expenditure decision, rather than in the single unconditional education expenditure decision; this distinction is shown to be important because gender bias in the enrolment decision has greatly fallen but bias in the conditional expenditure decision has significantly risen over time. Thirdly, we find that individual child level data has much greater power to detect gender bias in education spending, compared to household level data. Lastly, household fixed effects analysis shows that the observed gender biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12671/gender-b...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: gender bias, education expenditure, education and gender, India
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128758
Downloads since deposit
107Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item