Tag Search: “schooling”
Restructuring India’s schooling system
Over the last two decades, students have exited government schools in India due to the poor quality of schools, resulting in the mushrooming of small and tiny private schools that are scattered across...
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Shivakumar Jolad
07 May, 2018
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Impact evaluation of a school-based gender sensitization campaign
This project conducts a randomised evaluation in four districts in Haryana, India, of a secondary-school-based attitude-change programme aimed at reducing son preference in reproductive decisions and ...
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Seema Jayachandran
31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Temperature and human capital in India
A large proportion of the population in India has agrarian livelihoods that remain climate-exposed. The number of hot days per year in the country are expected to double by the end of this century. T...
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Teevrat Garg
Maulik Jagnani
Vis Taraz
26 March, 2018
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I4I Panel Discussion: The challenge of job creation
In a recent I4I editorial, Ashok Kotwal described the challenge of job creation that is facing the Indian economy today. In December 2017, Prof. Kotwal moderated a panel discussion on the topic betwe...
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Nalini Gulati
30 January, 2018
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Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
While there is near universal school enrolment among 6-14 year olds in India, learning levels are abysmally low. In this context, this project looks at senior secondary government schools in Delhi to ...
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Bidisha Barooah
Deepti Goel
26 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Engaging the community to make schools accountable for delivering quality education
While the dismal quality of primary education in India has received considerable attention at the state and national levels, rural communities still seem to associate school quality with parameters su...
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K. Vaijayanti
21 November, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Barriers in accessing applications under RTE quota in Gujarat
In the school year 2017-18, Gujarat shifted from a paper-based system at the district level to an online system at the state level, for applications under the Right to Education Act. In this note, res...
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Ambrish Dongre
Ishu Gupta
Ankur Sarin
Karan Singhal
Nisha Pankaj Vernekar
30 October, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Language and development
Language choice is central to organisation of society, transmission of knowledge, and interpersonal communication, and hence, has implications for socioeconomic inequality. This column examines the co...
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David D. Laitin
Rajesh Ramachandran
05 July, 2017
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Good monsoon, bad test scores? Substituting away from schooling
Good monsoons in India raise agricultural productivity and hence, bring added work and higher wages. Is this extra work at the expense of schooling for poor children? This column finds that increased ...
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Manisha Shah
Bryce Millett Steinberg
27 June, 2017
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Kanyashree Prakalpa in West Bengal: Justification and evaluation
Kanyasree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme of the Government of West Bengal that offers scholarship to adolescent girls for continuing education and remaining unmarried until the age of ...
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Arijita Dutta
Anindita Sen
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Risks and Investment in Education
This project analysed the effects of household income risk on schooling investment in rural India. The findings from this project suggest that income risk faced by poorer households is an important re...
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Tanuka Endow
Alok Kumar
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Common tongue? How mother tongue instruction influences education
The recently released draft of the National Education Policy stresses the importance of education in the mother tongue, especially in the formative years at school. This column seeks to uncover the li...
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Tarun Jain
Revathy Suryanarayana
27 February, 2017
- Perspectives