Geeta Kingdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geeta Kingdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Kingdon |
| SIGNATURE | KINGDON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1583-5540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India
The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India
This paper examines the size, growth, salaries, fee levels and per-pupil-costs of private schools, and compares these with the government school sector. Official data show a steep growth of private schooling and a corresponding rapid shrinkage in the size of the government school sector in India, suggesting parental abandonment of government schools. Data show that a very large majority of private schools in most states are ‘low-fee’ when judged …
Assessing teacher quality in India
The School Governance Environment in Uttar Pradesh, India
The school governance environment is an important determinant of schooling quality and thus of development. This article explores how school governance is influenced by teacher unions and teacher politicians by presenting evidence on the political penetration of teachers, the activities of teacher unions and the stances of teachers' organisations on various decentralisation and accountability reform proposals over time. It asks how student achiev…
Education Goal-setting Post-2015
Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan
Can education be a path to gender equality in the labour market? An update on Pakistan
This paper investigates some of the economic outcomes of education in Pakistan with a view to understanding if education can act as a vehicle for labour market success. Data from a purpose-designed survey of more than 1000 households in Pakistan are utilised. Earnings functions are estimated for agricultural workers, the self-employed and wage earners to estimate the returns to the ‘quantity’ and the ‘quality’ of schooling in different occupation…
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Ethnicity and low achievement in English schools
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper asks: what is the ethnic dimension of the low achievement problem? We focus on six aspects, using the National Pupil Database: whether the relation between ethnicity and incidence of low achievement is symmetrical with the relation between ethnicity and achievement; whether economic disadvantage is an equally large risk factor for low achievem…
Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society
The progress of school education in India
This paper provides an overview of school education in India. First, it places India's educational achievements in international perspective, particularly against countries with which it is now increasingly compared, especially China. Second, the paper examines schooling access in terms of enrolment and school attendance rates, and schooling quality in terms of literacy rates, learning achievement levels, school resources, and teacher inputs. Thi…
Subjective well-being poverty vs . Income poverty and capabilities poverty
The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty is to use measures of income or consumption. This has been challenged by those who favour broader criteria, such as fulfilment of ‘basic needs’ and the ‘capabilities’ to be and to do things of intrinsic worth. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing or complementary, and is it possible for them to be accommodate…
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa
It is commonly claimed that the South African labor market is unusually inflexible owing to the strength of the country's unions and the system of centralized collective bargaining. One sign of labor market inflexibility is low responsiveness of wages to local unemployment. Analyzing data from the South African Living Standards Survey, the authors find that the elasticity of wages with respect to local unemployment rates in South Africa in 1993 w…
Where Has All the Bias Gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Expenditure
The reliability of the household consumption–based (Engel curve) methodology in detecting gender bias has been called into question because it has generally failed to confirm bias even where it exists. This article seeks to find explanations for this failure by exploiting a data set that has educational expenditure information at the individual level and also, by aggregation, at the household level. I find that, in the basic education age groups,…
Unemployment in South Africa
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in India
Differential treatment of sons and daughters by parents is a potential explanation of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests this explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. We estimate educational enrolment functions and selectivity-corrected educational attainment functions, conditional on enrolment. The gender difference in educational attainment is deco…
School Participation in Rural India
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 infrastru…
What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa
(2001). What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa? Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 79-95
Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India
Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. It estimates workforce participation functions and selectivity-corrected earnings fluctuations, and calculates the rat…
The Quality and Efficiency of Private and Public Education
Recent evidence of a substantial link between quality of schooling and individual productivity suggests that, from an economic efficiency perspective, quality aspects of education deserve attention. This paper presents empirical evidence on the relative quality and efficiency of private and government‐funded schools in urban India, using data from Uttar Pradesh. The results suggest that standardizing for home background and controlling for sample…
An economic assessment of school management-types in urban India
Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan
Where Has All the Bias Gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Expenditure
The reliability of the household consumption–based (Engel curve) methodology in detecting gender bias has been called into question because it has generally failed to confirm bias even where it exists. This article seeks to find explanations for this failure by exploiting a data set that has educational expenditure information at the individual level and also, by aggregation, at the household level. I find that, in the basic education age groups,…
Unemployment in South Africa
Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India
Assessing teacher quality in India
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Ethnicity and low achievement in English schools
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper asks: what is the ethnic dimension of the low achievement problem? We focus on six aspects, using the National Pupil Database: whether the relation between ethnicity and incidence of low achievement is symmetrical with the relation between ethnicity and achievement; whether economic disadvantage is an equally large risk factor for low achievem…
What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa
(2001). What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa? Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 79-95
An economic assessment of school management-types in urban India
Can education be a path to gender equality in the labour market? An update on Pakistan
This paper investigates some of the economic outcomes of education in Pakistan with a view to understanding if education can act as a vehicle for labour market success. Data from a purpose-designed survey of more than 1000 households in Pakistan are utilised. Earnings functions are estimated for agricultural workers, the self-employed and wage earners to estimate the returns to the ‘quantity’ and the ‘quality’ of schooling in different occupation…
An economic assessment of school management-types in urban India
The Quality and Efficiency of Private and Public Education
Recent evidence of a substantial link between quality of schooling and individual productivity suggests that, from an economic efficiency perspective, quality aspects of education deserve attention. This paper presents empirical evidence on the relative quality and efficiency of private and government‐funded schools in urban India, using data from Uttar Pradesh. The results suggest that standardizing for home background and controlling for sample…
Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India
Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. It estimates workforce participation functions and selectivity-corrected earnings fluctuations, and calculates the rat…
School Participation in Rural India
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 infrastru…
What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa
(2001). What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa? Social Dynamics: Vol. 27, Quantitative Studies of South African Society, pp. 79-95
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in India
Differential treatment of sons and daughters by parents is a potential explanation of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests this explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. We estimate educational enrolment functions and selectivity-corrected educational attainment functions, conditional on enrolment. The gender difference in educational attainment is deco…
Unemployment in South Africa
Where Has All the Bias Gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Expenditure
The reliability of the household consumption–based (Engel curve) methodology in detecting gender bias has been called into question because it has generally failed to confirm bias even where it exists. This article seeks to find explanations for this failure by exploiting a data set that has educational expenditure information at the individual level and also, by aggregation, at the household level. I find that, in the basic education age groups,…
Subjective well-being poverty vs . Income poverty and capabilities poverty
The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty is to use measures of income or consumption. This has been challenged by those who favour broader criteria, such as fulfilment of ‘basic needs’ and the ‘capabilities’ to be and to do things of intrinsic worth. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing or complementary, and is it possible for them to be accommodate…
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa
It is commonly claimed that the South African labor market is unusually inflexible owing to the strength of the country's unions and the system of centralized collective bargaining. One sign of labor market inflexibility is low responsiveness of wages to local unemployment. Analyzing data from the South African Living Standards Survey, the authors find that the elasticity of wages with respect to local unemployment rates in South Africa in 1993 w…
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society
The progress of school education in India
This paper provides an overview of school education in India. First, it places India's educational achievements in international perspective, particularly against countries with which it is now increasingly compared, especially China. Second, the paper examines schooling access in terms of enrolment and school attendance rates, and schooling quality in terms of literacy rates, learning achievement levels, school resources, and teacher inputs. Thi…
Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India
Ethnicity and low achievement in English schools
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper asks: what is the ethnic dimension of the low achievement problem? We focus on six aspects, using the National Pupil Database: whether the relation between ethnicity and incidence of low achievement is symmetrical with the relation between ethnicity and achievement; whether economic disadvantage is an equally large risk factor for low achievem…
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan
Can education be a path to gender equality in the labour market? An update on Pakistan
This paper investigates some of the economic outcomes of education in Pakistan with a view to understanding if education can act as a vehicle for labour market success. Data from a purpose-designed survey of more than 1000 households in Pakistan are utilised. Earnings functions are estimated for agricultural workers, the self-employed and wage earners to estimate the returns to the ‘quantity’ and the ‘quality’ of schooling in different occupation…
The School Governance Environment in Uttar Pradesh, India
The school governance environment is an important determinant of schooling quality and thus of development. This article explores how school governance is influenced by teacher unions and teacher politicians by presenting evidence on the political penetration of teachers, the activities of teacher unions and the stances of teachers' organisations on various decentralisation and accountability reform proposals over time. It asks how student achiev…
Education Goal-setting Post-2015
Assessing teacher quality in India
The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India
This paper examines the size, growth, salaries, fee levels and per-pupil-costs of private schools, and compares these with the government school sector. Official data show a steep growth of private schooling and a corresponding rapid shrinkage in the size of the government school sector in India, suggesting parental abandonment of government schools. Data show that a very large majority of private schools in most states are ‘low-fee’ when judged …
The Myth and Reality of Teacher Shortage in India
Economics (18 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)