Gender Bias in Education in West Bengal

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Journal of Quantitative Economics

Abstract

This paper attempts to capture gender bias at two different levels of education, namely, below class-10 and above class-10 using NSSO 64th round education expenditure data on West Bengal. The analysis for the below class-10 level involves an intra household framework and Heckman’s two step model. Further, for this section the analysis is split up into classes 1–8 and classes 9–10 in view of the Right to Education act (2005). For above class-10 level, gender bias has been captured through a multinomial logit model for selection of subjects across households.

First Page

173

Last Page

196

DOI

10.1007/s40953-016-0038-3

Publication Date

3-1-2017

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