A Vaccination for Education: Early Childhood Development Programme and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India.

Girls lag behind boys in education in India and relatively more provide childcare at home. This paper investigates whether provision of childcare services by India’s largest child development programme narrows the gender education gap by reducing childcare costs. Using logit, village fixed effects a...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 153 - 174
Main Author:	JAIN, Monica
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2018
Subjects:	India Early childhood education Child development Education of girls Rural children Sex discrimination in education
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost