Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ashwini Deshpande
Author-Name-First: Ashwini
Author-Name-Last: Deshpande
Author-Email: ashwini.deshpande@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Ashoka University
Author-Name: Apoorva Gupta
Author-Name-First: Apoorva
Author-Name-Last: Gupta
Author-Email: apoorva@econdse.org
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
Title: Nakusha? Son Preference, Resource Concentration and Gender Gaps in Education
Abstract: Using nationally representative data over three decades for India, we investigate mechanisms underlying parental motivation to invest differentially between their sons’ and daughters’ education. We identify three channels: strong son preference, meta son preference (resulting in “unwanted girls”), and the resource concentration motivation. We find that gender gaps in educational quantity outcomes have declined significantly for all children. However, gender gaps in the quality of education have increased over the period, and the increase is the largest in families with unwanted girls, i.e. due to an intensification of meta son preference, followed by families motivated by resource concentration.
length: 69
Creation-Date: 20190603
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File-URL: https://dp.ashoka.edu.in/ash/wpaper/paper13_0.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf 
Number: 13
Keywords: Discrimination
Keywords: Education
Keywords: Educational Expenditure
Keywords: Gender
Keywords: School Choice
Keywords: Stream Choice
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:13