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Floods and Children’s Education in Rural India

Nazar Khalid, Jere Behrman, Emily Hannum, Amrit Thapa
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2024, 10 (1) 230-254; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.10
Nazar Khalid
aDoctoral student in demography and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Jere Behrman
bWR Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics/Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Emily Hannum
cStanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the social sciences and associate dean for social sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Amrit Thapa
dSenior lecturer in International Educational Development at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, United States
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    Distribution of Grade-for-Age by Variables Used in Regression Analysis

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on Indian Human Development Survey (Desai, Vanneman, and NCAER 2019).

    Note: Two sample t-tests for equality of means between grade-for-age and categories of variables in the x-axis are statistically significant at 5 percent for all except Hindu OBC and Other in caste-religion; the fourth and richest quintiles; mothers with middle or secondary and high school or more; and fathers with high school or more.

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    Distribution of Math Skills by Variables Used in Regression Analysis

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on Indian Human Development Survey (Desai, Vanneman, and NCAER 2019).

    Note: Two sample t-tests for equality of means between math skills and categories of variables in the x-axis are statistically significant at 5 percent for all except Other in caste-religion; the third, fourth, and richest quintiles; mothers with primary education; and fathers with high school or more.

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    Distribution of Reading Skills by Variables Used in Regression Models

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on Indian Human Development Survey (Desai, Vanneman, and NCAER 2019).

    Note: Two sample t-test for equality of means between reading skills and categories of variables in the x-axis are statistically significant at 5 percent for all except Other in caste-religion; the third, fourth, and richest quintiles; mothers with primary education; fathers with middle or secondary schooling.

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