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Mother or motherland : can a government have an impact on educational attainment of the population? : preliminary evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2010

In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood of transition from one educational level to the next. Our analysis suggests...

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Earnings inequality in India : has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results … inter-religion earnings differences to a great extent. -- inequality ; caste ; religion ; India …

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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? : Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2007

has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …

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