An Assessment of Gender Discrimination in Household Expenditure on Education in India

摘要

Gender discrimination in household expenditure on education has led to unsatisfactory progress in educational attainment for women in many countries across the world. It has been observed that households across different states in rural and urban India prefer to incur more expenditure on education for male members than for females. Kingdon (2005) [Where has all the bias gone ? Detecting gender bias in the intra-household allocation of educational expenditure, Economic Development and Cultural Change,53(2), 409-452] has observed significant gender bias in household educational expenditure in a number of Indian states utilizing the household survey data of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. Other researchers, such as Chaudhuri & Roy (2006) [Do parents spread educational expenditure evenly across the two genders? Evidence from two North Indian states, Economic and Political Weekly, 41, pp. 5276-5282] and Lancaster et al. (2008) [Household expenditure patterns and gender bia