National Council of Applied Economic Research
This paper examines disparities by social group in educational and economic indicators in India and looks for inter-state variations in these. Data from the 1994 NCAER-HDI survey in rural India reveals that differentials in enrolment persist in most cases even when controlled for parental factors such as education and income indicating current direct effect of... Read More
In this study, an attempt has been made to examine the determinants of health status and curative health care of children, adults and the elderly in rural India using the NCAER-HDI (Human Development Indicator) national-level survey data for 1994. Health status is defined in terms of illness prevalence rate and functional disability based measures. Descriptive evidence on the measures... Read More
In rural India access to education could act as a catalyst to change. Persons acquiring education could break through some of the social and cultural norms associated with certain occupations. However, access to education and the capacity to use it for economic betterment could differ by caste and religion. In independent India, social policies such as the reservation... Read More
This paper reports some new evidence from an all-India household survey on demand and supply issues in schooling. In India, most studies attribute poor educational performance to poverty. Though this factor is important, the recent survey evidence shows that lack of interest in schooling is the major factor explaining low enrolment and high dropout rates... Read More
The objective of this paper is to study the changes in public expenditures on social sector, as a result of the structural adjustment programme, that might have an impact on the sector's outcome. Therefore, an effort is made to assess the relationship between per capita public expenditure and the outcome across major states. The findings... Read More
There are at least two reasons why the debate regarding the impact of openness through liberalization on oil productivity growth is unresolved. First, there is the adequate theory of TFP growth and second, the empirical measurement of TFP is fraught with difficulties. An important methodological issue that has attracted limited attention in India is regarding... Read More
Welfare judgements on distribution of income has often been made on the basis of weighted sum of individual incomes. Scholars proposed various axioms to determine the weights. The set of weights proposed by Chakrabarty (1982) led to a Social welfare function (SWF) involving the normalised Theil's Entropy Measure. We have proposed a few alternative sets... Read More
The success of anti-inflationary stabilization policy depends on the stable demand for money function. Recent developments in econometrics emphasize the need to verify the time series properties of the variables in the demand for money function. In studies with conventional approaches to the estimation of demand for money, this was taken for granted. In this... Read More
In census enumeration a person is counted as literate if he or she can read and write in any language with understanding. In earlier censuses the whole population has been classified into literates and illiterates. From 1951 the questions on literacy have been canvassed among those aged 5 and above only. Since 1991 this classification... Read More
