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Dhanaraj, Sowmya; Paul, Christy Mariya; Gade, Smit – Education Economics, 2019
Household income shocks in developing countries are known to have an impact on the education investments for children. In this paper, we explore the effects of various income and expenditure shocks on educational investment and cognitive outcomes of children using three rounds of household-level panel data from Young Lives survey conducted in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Developing Nations, Expenditures
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Lafleur, Michael; Srivastava, Prachi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
India's "Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009" compels private schools to reserve a proportion of their seats for free for disadvantaged children. Although controversial, it is idealized as an equity measure for inclusion in and through education. This small-scale study, feeding into a larger research project,…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Labeling (of Persons), Private Schools, Foreign Countries
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Chudgar, Amita; Miller, Karyn; Kothari, Brij – International Review of Education, 2012
Household engagement in a child's education is a complex process; depending on the culture and the context, it may be revealed through a variety of behaviours. Using data from one district in rural Gujarat, India, four indicators of a household's educational engagement were employed to investigate the relationship between household literacy levels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Areas, Comparative Analysis
Unnikrishnan, Namita, Comp. – 1995
A product of the South Asian Regional Workshop of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), this report was intended to identify problems of low-income families in South Asia and create methods to serve their needs. The report begins with an introduction to the India chapter of the ISSBD; it then provides an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian Studies, At Risk Persons, Child Welfare