{"title":"Differences in the Graduate Educational Attainment of Social Groups in India: Preferences for Education Versus Education-Friendly Endowments","authors":"V. Borooah","doi":"10.1177/09731741231215121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231215121","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this article is on the ‘educational attainment’ of social groups in India, defined as the proportion of 21–29-year-olds in the different social groups that are graduates. Within this context, the article makes three contributions. The first is in terms of decomposition methodology: It shows how decomposition analysis can be used to breakdown graduate educational attainment (GEA) by population subgroups and region to offer insight into the policy levers available for improving the GEA of certain groups. The second is to a methodology for computing probabilities (termed ‘recycled predictions’) for isolating the group-specific probabilities of GEA which can be totally attributed to group identity. The third is to use these probabilities to break down the differences in proportions between social classes into a ‘social group effect’ and an ‘endowments effect’. The data for this article is from India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey for the period 2017–2018.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"8 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139437772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi","authors":"Sujeet Kumar","doi":"10.1177/09731741231220442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231220442","url":null,"abstract":"Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 368, $30, ISBN 9781503632134 (paperback).","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"36 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Isabelle Guerin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramaniam. 2023. The Indebted Woman, Kinship, Sexuality and Capitalism","authors":"Judith Heyer","doi":"10.1177/09731741231220441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231220441","url":null,"abstract":"Isabelle Guerin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramaniam. 2023. The Indebted Woman, Kinship, Sexuality and Capitalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 228. ISBN 9781503636910 (ebook), £19; ISBN 9781503636316 (hardback), £86; ISBN 9781503636903 (paperback), £20.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Mohammad Mozahidul Islam. 2023. Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh","authors":"Niladri Chatterjee","doi":"10.1177/09731741231214358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231214358","url":null,"abstract":"Mohammad Mozahidul Islam. 2023. Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor: The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781003341451 (ebook); pp. 318, $38.99, ISBN 9781032376943 (hardback); $120.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Gunjan Sharma. 2021. Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins: Ethnography of Education in the Indian Context","authors":"Tamali Halder","doi":"10.1177/09731741231210667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231210667","url":null,"abstract":"Gunjan Sharma. 2021. Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins: Ethnography of Education in the Indian Context. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-003-02801-7 (ebook); pp. 157, £31.19, ISBN 978-0-367-90365-7 (hardback); ₹1295.00, ISBN 978-1-032-00478-5 (paperback).","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"463 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agrarian Urbanism and Vernacular Capital in India","authors":"Carol Upadhya","doi":"10.1177/09731741231209124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231209124","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Cowan. Subaltern Frontiers: Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 220 pp. $94.99. ISBN-13: 978-1-0091-0047-2 (E-book). Sushmita Pati. Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 320 pp. ₹995. ISBN-13: 978-1-0091-0047-2 (hard cover).","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"32 12","pages":"457 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welfare Benefits and Personal Connections in a Democracy: The Case of Muslims in West Bengal","authors":"Saheli Bose, Vivekananda Mukherjee","doi":"10.1177/09731741231207540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231207540","url":null,"abstract":"We study the association between social connections of Muslim households and their access to welfare benefits distributed by local governments in rural West Bengal. Using household data from selected villages in West Bengal, we find that Muslim households with higher outdegree centrality are associated with 2 percentage points probability of receiving a higher fraction of benefits from the local government than Hindu households with similar networks. This association is positive and significant for the benefits under housing and toilets. However, for the allocation of work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Hindu households with larger networks obtain more benefits. The results show that poorer Muslim households with a larger spread of network are associated with receiving more benefits.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"50 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134902813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Srila Roy. 2022. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India","authors":"Proshant Chakraborty","doi":"10.1177/09731741231212103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231212103","url":null,"abstract":"Srila Roy. 2022. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 280 pp., $26.95 (Paperback). ISBN 978-1-4780-1888-9.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":" 28","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135240947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan","authors":"Theresa Chaudhry, Rabia Arif","doi":"10.1177/09731741231200380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231200380","url":null,"abstract":"Cousin marriage is an important social institution in many parts of Asia and Africa; yet few studies have looked beyond the health consequences to its role in shaping intrahousehold dynamics. We use a unique survey of households in Pakistan to examine the role of parental consanguinity on education, child work and vaccination, and how those effects differ by gender. We apply ordinary least squares, Tobit, inverse probability weighting with regression adjustment treatment effects and intent-to-treat estimation techniques to a dataset of 1,020 households from 9 districts and control for a rich set of covariates. We model selection into consanguineous marriage using the availability of opposite-gender marriageable cousins. Our results show that the adult children of parents who are first cousins completed fewer years of education and are less likely to have attended school. Educational attainment was curtailed equally for daughters of both marriage arrangements, but consanguineous daughters faced a double burden of consanguinity and gender discrimination. For school-aged children of consanguineous couples, the number of days of school missed is higher in some specifications, but enrolment and educational expenditures are roughly the same as children of parents who are not related or are related more distantly. In contrast, domestic work is somewhat reduced for the offspring of first-cousin parents. Daughters of consanguineous parents are less likely to have received vaccinations, although this effect is weaker in the sample of school-aged children than adult children.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"133 36","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135724503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Reza Habib, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Artem Uldanov
{"title":"Creating Pathways to Opportunity: Non-formal Educational ‘Inclusion’ for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Reza Habib, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Artem Uldanov","doi":"10.1177/09731741231202872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231202872","url":null,"abstract":"In coordination with the Government of Bangladesh, the United Nations Children’s Fund and Save the Children International have been conducting a non-formal educational programme for the children of Rohingya refugees since 2017. Domestic partner non-governmental organizations are implementing the initiative. The purpose of this study was to examine the policy and the institutional arrangements and determine how they may influence the inclusion of Rohingya children in the education system. We found that the programme has set up infrastructure, but the location of refugee education that the government created is distinctly short-term, top-down, emergency-oriented and restrictive in many ways. Evidently, in order to avoid geopolitical and local sociocultural tensions, the host government did not really want to integrate refugees into local services and facilities, particularly access to education in public institutions. Nevertheless, civil society organizations and the Rohingya negotiated with the government, to a certain extent, an ‘inclusive’ space through discussion, dialogue and resilience for an expansion of this educational sphere. This space has created a limited sense of empowerment among the Rohingya.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"23 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}