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DEMOGRAPHY
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 115-132Publisher
POPULATION ASSN AMER
DOI: 10.2307/3088292
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Using data from India, we estimate the relationship between household wealth and children's school enrollment We proxy wealth by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights. In Indian data this index is robust to the assets included, and produces internally coherent results. State-level results correspond well to independent data on per capita output and poverty. To validate the method and to show that the asset index predicts enrollments as accurately as expenditures, or more so, we use data sets from Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nepal that contain information on both expenditures and assets. The results shaw large, variable wealth gaps in children's enrollment across Indian states. On average a rich child is 31 percentage points more likely to be enrolled than a poor child, but this gap varies from only 4.6 percentage points in Kerala to 38.2 in Uttar Pradesh and 42.6 in Bihar.
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