Gender disparities in completing school education in India: Analyzing regional variations
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Keywords
discrimination; disparity; gender; Oaxaca decomposition; school education; India;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2010-10-23 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2010-10-23 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2010-10-23 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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