TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Asadullah, Niaz
AU  - Kambhampati, Uma
AU  - Bóo, Florencia López
        TI  - Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
        PY  - 2012/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6329
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6329
        AB  - This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the Hindu-Muslim gap. Nonetheless, the gap remains sizable even after controlling for numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that experienced by girls and Scheduled Caste Hindu children. A gender gap still appears within as well as between communities, though it is smaller within Muslim communities. While differences in gender and other demographic and socio-economic covariates have recently become more important in explaining the Hindu-Muslim gap, those differences altogether explain only 25 percent to 45 percent of the observed schooling gap.
        KW  - social disparity
KW  - India
KW  - religion
KW  - gender inequality
        ER  -