Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2016
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that the gender of the child is potentially … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …