Intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure and returns to education: the case of Sri Lanka
This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka. Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in 1995/96 fo...
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University of Oxford
2008
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