Household Headship and Academic Skills of Indian Children: A Special Focus on Gender Disparities

Singh, Ashish; Gaurav, Sarthak; Das, Upasak

doi:10.1007/s10680-013-9288-3

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“…Household level variables :(1) Employment status of spouse (categorical; unemployed/employed); (2) Children below six years of age (categorical; yes/no): Whether there are children below six years in the household; (3) Household per capita income (continuous): In Indian Rupees per month; (4) Caste (categorical–Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Castes (OBC) and Other Castes (OC)): The above categorization is a meaningful representation of the Indian social fabric along caste lines [ 25 , 54 ]; and (5) Religion (categorical): Religion has been categorized into five categories, namely Hindu (the majority religious group), Muslim (the largest group among religious minorities), Christians, Sikhs and Others.…”

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“…That said past studies have linked education with reduced risk of illness, increased vitality, longevity, and better school success for future generations [ 11 ]. While linking the education of one generation to the education and health related issues of the next generation; the existing studies have impressed upon the fact that it is the mother’s education which plays a more significant role in affecting the educational and health outcomes of children, especially the daughters in both developed as well as developing countries [ 12 – 25 ].…”

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Effect of intergenerational educational mobility on health of Indian women

Choudhary

Singh

2018

PLoS ONE

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This study aims to analyse the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and the overall health of the Indian women. It uses a nationally representative survey, India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2011–12, and logistic regressions to study this relationship. The sample comprises of women aged 45 years and older. We find that the women experiencing upward intergenerational educational mobility (vis-a-vis their mothers) have significantly higher chances of experiencing good overall health compared to the women who are having same or lesser level of education as that of their mothers. Besides, women suffering from short term or major morbidity have remarkably lower chances of having overall good health. Also, women from rural India have significantly lesser chances of having overall good health as compared to that of urban areas. Further, Muslim women have lesser chances of having overall good health as that of women from other religious categories. Moreover, there is a significant variation in the overall health of women as we move from the eastern region to the western region of India.

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Effect of intergenerational educational mobility on health of Indian women

Choudhary

Singh

2018

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“…Such a preference is based on the understanding that head of the household influence or shape most of the household decisions. Literature has shown that household headship matters for better welfare outcomes across different countries (Johnson and Rogers 1993;Handa 1996;Seebens 2009;Singh et al 2013).This is because more often than not the head of the household is the oldest member in the household and he/she would be the prime decision making authority in the household. However because the oldest surviving individual of the household is the head, he/she may have an educational level much lower compared with the younger members of the household.…”

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Towards Conceptualization of a Household Educational Indicator: Incorporating Externalities

Das

Mishra

2020

Soc Indic Res

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Though education is essentially an individual attribute, its positive externality goes beyond the individual to household conditioned by its gendered and generational features. Further, distributional aspects of education levels among the household members are also important in terms of its effects on its welfare outcomes. Hence, education of the head or highest educational level within the household may not adequately represent the household educational levels. In this context, we construct a household educational index that combines three aspects: distribution of education among household members, highest education level among the male and female members and difference in highest education level attained between generations. The generalised final index is found to satisfy all the axioms or the intuitive properties: monotonicity, anonymity, normalisation and uniformity. Additionally, we examine the values of the proposed indicators against the commonly used indicators including education of the household head and the highest education within the household using a representative survey from India. The empirical results indicate considerable difference between the proposed indicator and these common indicators. We also observe a strong association between our proposed indicator and welfare indicators like learning outcomes among children and having a toilet in the household. This implies usage of common indicators may underestimate the significance of education in terms of its bearing on welfare outcomes. These findings lay emphasis on the significance of conceptualizing a household educational indicator that accommodates the complexities of welfare externalities of individual educational levels within the household.

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“…Literature shows that female headship has a negative impact on children’ schooling in developed countries like the USA (McLanahan & Sandefur, 1996; Sibanda, 2004). Furthermore, evidence also suggests that children from female headed households may have higher schooling attainment in developing regions in Africa and Asia (Joshi, 2004; Kennedy & Peters, 1992; Khan & Ali, 2003; Lloyd & Blanc, 1996; Singh, Gaurav & Das, 2013). Khan and Ali (2003) found that school attainment is relatively higher among female headed households in rural areas of Pakistan.…”

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Education Poverty in Pakistan: A Spatial Analysis at District Level

Nawaz

Iqbal²

2016

Indian Journal of Human Development

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This study aims, first to construct an education poverty index (EPI) for Pakistan using household data; second, to investigate the spatial differences of education poverty (EP) at district level; and third to find the socio-economic determinants of EP. Four different dimensions are used to construct EPI using the Alkire Foster (AF) method. The results show that 26 per cent households are below the poverty cut-off in Pakistan. The ratio is high in rural area of Pakistan (33 per cent) as compared to urban areas of Pakistan (12 per cent). Similar trend has been observed across all provinces. The majority of the households are deprived in terms of cost of education. Empirical analysis shows that various socio-economic variables such as income, regional variation and awareness play very important role in explaining EP. To eradicate education deprivation, area- and dimension-specific policies are required to make efficient use of scarce resources.

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Household Headship and Academic Skills of Indian Children: A Special Focus on Gender Disparities

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Effect of intergenerational educational mobility on health of Indian women

Effect of intergenerational educational mobility on health of Indian women

Towards Conceptualization of a Household Educational Indicator: Incorporating Externalities

Education Poverty in Pakistan: A Spatial Analysis at District Level

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