Segmented Schooling: Inequalities in Primary Education
Sonalde Desai
University of Maryland College Park
Cecily Darden Adams
University of Maryland College Park
Amaresh Dubey
National Council of Applied Economic Research
New Delhi
Current Version: January 2008
Prepared for presentation at the Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy Workshop being organised by the
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, October 26-27, 2007.
The results reported in this paper are based primarily on India Human Development Survey, 2005. This
survey was jointly organized by researchers at University of Maryland and the National Council of Applied
Economic Research. The data collection was funded by grants R01HD041455 and R01HD046166 from
the National Institutes of Health to University of Maryland. Part of the sample represents a resurvey of
households initially conducted in the course of India Human Development Survey 1993-94 conducted by
NCAER.