Ankush Agrawal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ankush Agrawal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ankush |
| FAMILY NAME | Agrawal |
| SIGNATURE | AGRAWAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6613-4392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India
Private tutoring participation is increasing in several developing countries, and this expansion has attracted the interest of scholars spanning disciplines of economics, sociology and history. This paper presents a theoretical model of private tutoring demand. The model incorporates the household and school characteristics in a developing country context and demonstrates the source of gender gaps in access to private tutoring. Using a recent dat…
Beyond Consumption Expenditure
A considerable body of research on inequality in India has focused on consumption inequality. This article compares inequality in consumption expenditure and income, using two waves of the India Human Development Survey. We find that while income inequality increased marginally, expenditure inequality remained stable. The article also undertakes the decomposition of income inequality by sources and finds that wage and agricultural incomes contrib…
Who Gains More from Education? A Comparative Analysis of Business, Farm and Wage Workers in India
The economics literature on returns to education has focused largely on wage workers, thereby ignoring a sizable section of the workforce which is self-employed. This paper presents the estimates of private returns to education for business, farm and wage workers in India using a nationally representative household survey. The paper addresses the sample-selectivity issue arising due to endogenous sector allocation in the earnings equation using t…
Cartographic conflicts within a union
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
The UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) for 2010 introduced a new index, the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), to capture the distributional dimensions of human development. The indicators used for the three dimensions of the HDI, namely, income, education and health, are adjusted for inequalities in attainments across persons. In the light of growing concern with inequalities in India and the focus of the Government of India on…
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
The UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) for 2010 introduced a new index, the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), to capture the distributional dimensions of human development. The indicators used for the three dimensions of the HDI, namely, income, education and health, are adjusted for inequalities in attainments across persons. In the light of growing concern with inequalities in India and the focus of the Government of India on…
Cartographic conflicts within a union
Who Gains More from Education? A Comparative Analysis of Business, Farm and Wage Workers in India
The economics literature on returns to education has focused largely on wage workers, thereby ignoring a sizable section of the workforce which is self-employed. This paper presents the estimates of private returns to education for business, farm and wage workers in India using a nationally representative household survey. The paper addresses the sample-selectivity issue arising due to endogenous sector allocation in the earnings equation using t…
Beyond Consumption Expenditure
A considerable body of research on inequality in India has focused on consumption inequality. This article compares inequality in consumption expenditure and income, using two waves of the India Human Development Survey. We find that while income inequality increased marginally, expenditure inequality remained stable. The article also undertakes the decomposition of income inequality by sources and finds that wage and agricultural incomes contrib…
Determinants of Private Tutoring Demand in Rural India
Private tutoring participation is increasing in several developing countries, and this expansion has attracted the interest of scholars spanning disciplines of economics, sociology and history. This paper presents a theoretical model of private tutoring demand. The model incorporates the household and school characteristics in a developing country context and demonstrates the source of gender gaps in access to private tutoring. Using a recent dat…
Economics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic inequality (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public economics (2 works)