Demand or supply for schooling in rural India?

dc.contributor.author	Motiram, Sripad
dc.contributor.author	Osberg, Lars
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-04T07:59:34Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-04T07:59:34Z
dc.date.issued	2012-06-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2275/159
dc.description.abstract	Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home instructional time) using the Indian Time Use Survey of 1998-1999 and the 7th All India School Education Survey (AISES). Probit and sample selection bias regression estimates indicate that the influence of supply side factors (school quality and availability) is large relative to the impact of household characteristics (e.g. low income). We discuss the policy implications.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;WP-2011-010
dc.subject	Schooling	en_US
dc.subject	Human capital accumulation;	en_US
dc.subject	Rural India	en_US
dc.title	Demand or supply for schooling in rural India?	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US