Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed correlat...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/897341555005620647/Education-Spillovers-in-Farm-Productivity-Revisiting-the-Evidence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31557 |
| Summary: | This paper exploits the social
organization of India to revisit the question of education
spillovers in farm productivity. The fact that social
interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India
provides tools to show that the observed correlation between
farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to
be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no
cross-caste and no cross-occupation effects, which
underlines that, under specific assumptions, which are
stated and explored in the paper, the education of neighbors
does not capture the effect of group unobservables. This
evidence is complemented by separate estimations by crops,
which show results that are consistent with education
spillovers. The strategy used in this paper helps understand
and interpret previous findings from the literature. |
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