Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literature that has operationalized concepts in the inequality of opportunity theory (including Roemer’s) and construct t...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.008