Educational inequality in rural and urban India

•We examine changes in educational inequality in India between years 1993 and 2009.•We compute the education Gini index using multiple rounds of large scale nationally representative survey.•We find though the inequality has declined during the period, the extent of inequality remains high.•The resu...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of educational development 2014-01, Vol.34, p.11-19
1. Verfasser: Agrawal, Tushar
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:•We examine changes in educational inequality in India between years 1993 and 2009.•We compute the education Gini index using multiple rounds of large scale nationally representative survey.•We find though the inequality has declined during the period, the extent of inequality remains high.•The results show there is a clear rural–urban contrast.•Using the analysis of Gini, we find that a large part of educational inequality is due to intra-sector inequality. This paper presents estimates of educational inequality for the major Indian states. We compute the education Gini index separately for the rural and urban sectors and examine the changes in inequality during past two decades. The estimates show the high extent of educational inequality; though the inequality declined between 1993 and 2009 the Gini index is above 50% in 2009. Using the analysis of Gini (ANOGI), a technique to decompose overall inequality into the inequality within- and between-sectors, we find that a large part of overall educational inequality is accounted for by intra-sector inequality. Further, intra-sector inequality has increased and inter-sector inequality has narrowed during the above period.
ISSN:0738-0593
1873-4871
DOI:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2013.05.002