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School Participation in Rural India
Jean Drèze & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
  1 Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 110007, India,   2 Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK
Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2001

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation, especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher postings, mid-day meals and infrastructural quality. Mid-day meals are particularly effective: the provision of a mid-day meal in the local school roughly halves the proportion of girls excluded from the schooling system. School quality matters, though it is not related in a simple way to specific inputs.


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10.1111/1467-9361.00103 About DOI

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