TY - BOOK AU - Mitra,Chayanika TI - Gender bias in education in West Bengal U1 - 371.821095414 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Kolkata PB - Indian Statistical Institute, KW - Education KW - Gender Bias KW - West Bengal KW - Heckman's Two Step Model KW - Multinomial Logit Model KW - Dropout Behaviour KW - Children N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indian Statistical Institute; Introduction -- Identification of Child Educational items from Household Level Data: The Outlay Equivalent Ratio Approach -- Gender Bias in Below Class-10 and Above Class-10 Levels: Application of Heckman's Two Step Model and Multinomial Logit Model using Individual Level Education Expenditure Data -- Gender Bias in Education in West Bengal: An Application of Intra-Household Collective Model -- Dropout Behaviour of Children: The Case of West Bengal -- Concluding Remarks and Future Works; Guided by Prof. Amita Majumder N2 - This thesis focuses on gender bias in the field of education, where a substantial number of studies on India point to the existence of such bias. Broadly, the research papers on gender bias in education can be categorized into two groups of issues: (i) school participation and (ii) expenditure on education UR - http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/7077 ER -