Vidya,Veda, andVarna: The influence of religion and caste on education in rural India

Borooah, Vani K.; Iyer, Sriya

doi:10.1080/00220380500186960

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“…[36][37][38] In India, the religious differentials in the socioeconomic and demographic profiles have been well documented due to cultural and regional diversity and, political interests. [39][40][41][42][43][44] The most studied issue in public health literature in India has been on Hindu-Muslim differences in fertility and family planning. [45][46][47] Few studies have also explored child survival prospects across different religious groups.…”

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Socioeconomic and regional disparities in safe delivery in India (1990-2006)

Yadav

Gupta

Singh

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Giving birth to a child is not only a strain for the body, but it also puts the woman's health at risk. Globally, nearly 300,000 thousand women die each year as a result of pregnancy related complications. India, with a population of more than 1.21 billion, has the highest maternal mortality in the world (estimated to be 56000 in 2010). Addressing the maternity care needs of women may have considerable ramifications for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-5. The proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (safe delivery) is one of the main indicators used to monitor progress in reaching MDG 5. The main objective of this study was to the traces the changes in utilization patterns and determinants of safe delivery care services by women in India, during last one and half decade, 1990-2006. Methods: Data from three rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), known as the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in India were analyzed. Bivariate and multivariate-pooled logistic regression model were applied to assessing the trends and determinants of safe delivery care services utilization, over one and half decade, 1990-2006 and also fit models stratified by survey periods and with interactions among key socioeconomic predictors to show the extent of disparity in the utilization of safe delivery care services among women belonging to different socioeconomic strata. Results:The results from analysis indicate that the coverage of safe delivery has increased from 34 percent to 50 percent during the last one and half decade. Overall, it can be said that, there was an improvement in the level of safe deliveries over the period of time. This improvement was somewhere very marginal, but somewhere very pronounced too. The results shows those women's education, husband's education, religion, caste, mass media exposure, birth order and interval, wealth quintile and region of residence were found to be statistically significant determinants in the utilization of safe delivery care services. Women from the Southern region utilizing the highest safe delivery care services compared to other regions. Conclusions: The region specific inequalities, which were greater than the socioeconomic inequalities, may be reduced by expanding outreach health programs to bring services closer to the disadvantaged. Promoting the use of family planning, female education, targeting vulnerable groups such as poor, illiterate, high parity women, involving media and grass root level workers and collaboration between community leaders and health care system could be some important policy level interventions to address the unmet need of safe delivery care services among women. Maternity programmes should be designed keeping in mind the socioeconomic and geographically context, especially women who belongs to EAG states, India.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Socioeconomic and regional disparities in safe delivery in India (1990-2006)

Yadav

Gupta

Singh

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…For example, in India today, it seems important to have educated sons, but in order to get daughters married, it is equally important to have educated daughters. If the average levels of education among Muslim men are for example lower than among Hindu men, then there may be lower educational investments also required of Muslim women (Borooah and Iyer 2005b). A related issue is land ownership -there may be a greater desire on the part of Hindus to have sons in order to keep land within the patrilineal family line.…”

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“…Since the two dependent variables (S i and D i ) were 'count'variables, in that they assumed non-negative integer values, an appropriate estimation method is the Poisson Regression Model (PRM). 14 The PRM estimates for the number of sons and daughters, to women who had completed their fertility, are shown in Table 7. Also shown in Table 7, alongside the column of coe¢ cient estimates, are the associated marginal e¤ects.…”

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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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“…In India of the 1970s and 1980s, education may have been allocated by an alternative process of social hierarchy rather than to optimize human capital (Borooah and Iyer, 2005;Thorat and Neuman, 2012). Figure 3 provides evidence that this may have occurred, using the same sample as in the IMR estimates.…”

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confidence: 99%