Rural employment guarantee programme in India and its impact on household educational decisions

A focus on private coaching

Bibliographic Data

ID21594375
AuthorsUpasak Das (0000-0002-4371-0139, Presidential Fellow in Economics of Poverty Reduction, Global Development Institute University of Manchester Manchester UK, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume33
Issue6
Pages1005-1025
Publication date2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-1748 • E-ISSN: 1099-1328
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jid.3546
OpenAlexW3161090485
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

This paper evaluates the impact of household participation in a large‐scale public works programme in India on educational decisions including children schooling and expenditure incurred on private coaching and other educational components. Exogenous variation in proximity of households to a river is used to control for the potential endogeneity. The findings indicate positive impact of the programme on expenditure on private coaching while having no impact on other educational expenditures indicating higher income elasticity of private coaching. The paper thus emphasizes on various direct and indirect benefits of the programme which necessitate its effective implementation at the local level

Business · Coaching · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Endogeneity · Higher education · Labour economics · Private education · Private sector · Public economics · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · School Choice and Performance

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