Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51902 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5687
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards, with almost universal disadvantage in the amount of education expenditures in the group of 15-19 year olds.
Subjects: 
gender discrimination
India
intra-household allocation
education expenditures
JEL: 
I24
I25
J16
O15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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