Do households in high growth regions invest more in education because their incomes are growing or because growth raises their returns to education? What is the relative contribution of these channels to explaining education choices? To answer these questions, this paper exploits variation in the demand for skill and land in two major sectors of rural India agriculture and manufacturing. To gui...

BACKGROUND Assistance during delivery by a skilled attendant is recommended as a means to reduce child and maternal mortality. Globally, higher levels of maternal education have been associated with better health behaviours at delivery. However, given that heads of households tend to be the decision makers regarding accessing healthcare, some educated mothers may find themselves prevented from ...

Family size has always been a key factor affecting household investment decision making behavior (Browning 1992). Yet, recently, household financial decision making issues have become even more acute for millions of households that are part of the “Sandwich Generation.” Households with children approaching collegeage are now providing financial support for aging relatives. This combined with th...

Professional teachers are not only required to master the fields of science, teaching materials, learning methods, and student motivation. They have high skills broad insight into world education. This is inseparable from guidance a supervisor. Supervision carried out form improve abilities in process. Maintenance can help enhance teachers' professional so that carry process they do class well....

Children growing up away from their biological parents may experience lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment using …xed e¤ects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data collection by the author involved tracking and interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status at national, sub-national, household, and individual levels explains a significant portion of variation in infant mortality. Women's education is among the major determinants of infant mortality. The mechanism through which a woman's own educational status, over her husband's as well as household characteristics, influences infant mortality has not been well stud...

  Inequality, nowadays, is one of the main concerns in developmental plans and as a result expansion of basic opportunities and their fair distribution is a part and parcel of any roadmap to development. However, the economic policies of the country can inform any attempt in this regard. To estimate the extent to which such policies have impacted equal and timely access to education in Ir...

background: because of the close relationship between economic growth and welfare of the societies many economists have been seeking to identify the sources of economic growth. human capital through enhancing workforce skills and quality, increases the amount of workforce income which consequently leads to economic growth. methods: this study is based on data from the social accounting matrix o...