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Does Job Prospect Influence School Enrolment for Women in South Asia?

In: Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies

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  • Saibal Kar

    (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
    IZA)

  • Archita Pramanik

    (New Alipore College)

Abstract

It is well-known that school enrolment and retention of female students in most countries of South Asia are abysmally poor. While some recent improvements have been made possible via direct transfers to attract female students in school, the factors that can make participation natural and widespread remain elusive. This chapter tries to link school enrolment to prospects in industry and service sectors in these countries. We find that rise in industrial jobs for women invariably attracts female students to secondary school enrolment, which is not similar to rise in job prospects in services. Female school enrolment is also strongly influenced by peer-effects. We explore male industrial jobs and related interaction effects in establishing the proposed relation for eight South Asian countries between 1994 and 2018 via use of dynamic panel estimations.

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  • Saibal Kar & Archita Pramanik, 2023. "Does Job Prospect Influence School Enrolment for Women in South Asia?," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Tanmoyee Banerjee Chatterjee & Arpita Ghose & Poulomi Roy (ed.), Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies, pages 239-260, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-99-4063-9_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4063-9_12
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