Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Drèze, Jean; Sen, Amartya

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“…On the basis of their general level of facilities 26 , the 1,758 villages in the NCAER Survey were classi…ed as (a) low-development villages; (b) medium-development villages; and (c) high-development villages. Relative to women in low-development villages, mothers in medium and high development villages were less likely not to use contraception, by just over 5 points for medium, and nearly 7 points for high development villages; and more likely to use terminal methods, by nearly 5 points for medium, and by over 6 points for high development villages.…”

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Missing Women And India's Religious Demography

Borooah¹,

Do²,

Iyer³

et al. 2009

Policy Research Working Papers

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The interaction between religion and fertility is the subject of intense debate in developing countries. This paper puts forward a new theory to provide an explanation for larger Muslim, relative to Hindu fertility, in the context of India. It does so by integrating the literature on missing women with that on religious di¤erences in fertility. Formally, the paper takes the notion of 'son preference'and the complementary concept of 'daughter aversion', linking them to religious di¤erences in fertility. Just as sons may bring 'bene…ts'to their parents, daughters may impose 'costs'. Consequently, the desire for sons may increase family size while the fear of daughters limits it. These two countervailing forces may act so as to determine equilibrium family size and composition. Econometric evidence is presented to test the theory using Poisson regression models estimated on a range of demographic variables relevant to this issue -the number of living children, the number of infant deaths and the sex ratio -estimated on data from a nationallyrepresentative sample of Indian women who had adopted a terminal method of contraception. The analysis concludes that higher Muslim fertility in India may be related to signi…cantly lower levels of daughter aversion among this community, bringing in to focus the interactions between religion, gender bias, and fertility behaviour. JEL Classi…cation Code: C25, J13, J15, O53, Z12

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Section: Analysis Of Contraceptive Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Missing Women And India's Religious Demography

Borooah¹,

Do²,

Iyer³

et al. 2009

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…This is not an easy task because "neglect of elementary education has been a persistent feature of public policy in most states since independence" (PROBE Team, 1999, p.131). It is, of course, possible for parents to make government schools accountable to their needs, as success in the states of Kerala (Drèze and Sen, 1995;Sen, 1997) and Himachal Pradesh (PROBE Team, 1999, pp. 115-127) demonstrates.…”

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Basic Education as a Human Right Redux

Willmore

2008

SSRN Journal

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free elementary education and free choice of schools to children and their parents. International fora emphasise the first right while neglecting the second. This essay examines arguments for limiting school choice and finds each of them to be unconvincing. It then describes three school systems: India, with free choice, but only for those who can afford to pay; Sweden, with taxpayer-funded free choice for everyone; and Finland, which allows parents almost no choice at all in basic education.

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“…As Drèze and Sen (1995) have pointed out, China's real achievements lie in the field of health and education with dramatic reductions in infant and child mortality and increases in longevity and the achievement of near-universal literacy. By contrast, India's record in field of social progress -with the exception of particular states like Kerala -has been relatively disappointing.…”

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China and India: Income inequality and poverty north and south of the Himalayas

Borooah

Gustafsson

2006

Journal of Asian Economics

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China and India are the most populous countries of the World and also the two largest contributors to World poverty as assessed by the World Bank. This paper, focusing on the rural circumstances is the first study using microdata to compare income inequality and poverty in the two countries. We find that at the mid-1990s income inequality in rural China and rural India were relatively similar.Our results show that differences in mean income across regions are much larger in China than in India and accounts for a much larger proportion of income inequality in rural China. The proportion of the population falling under a poverty line set to US$ 1 per person and day in western China is similar to the corresponding proportion in several Indian regions but much higher than in the prosperous eastern part of China. Economic status in India is more influenced by education of household head than in China where fewer are illiterate. Common to both countries is that minority status as well as land status affect income and poverty. #

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Economic Development and Social Opportunity

Cited by 295 publications

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Missing Women And India's Religious Demography

Missing Women And India's Religious Demography

Basic Education as a Human Right Redux

China and India: Income inequality and poverty north and south of the Himalayas

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