Using data from the National Family Health Survey (2005-06), this study examines the effect of parental education and the related factors (mother's exposure to mass media and her socio-economic empowerment) in the regional variations in infant mortality in India. The study finds that parental...

Higher education in India has expanded remarkably during the post-independence period, and more impressively during the last three to four decades, emerging as the second largest system in the world after China. However, the growth has not been even and, being unplanned, unregulated and market...

Research on family expenditures on education in India is not abundant; and research on the determinants of family expenditure on higher engineering education is very scanty. As a result, systematic knowledge of the nature and type of family expenditure is extremely limited and why do households...

Using both quantitative and qualitative indicators of a few key parameters that define educational development, such as literacy, enrollment ratios in primary, secondary and higher levels of education, out-of-school children, inequalities, quality of teachers, public funding, international aid...