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 correlation between farm productivity and neighbors’ educati...

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Main Author:	Gille, Véronique
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	EDUCATION EXTERNALITIES FARM PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVER
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36712

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spelling	okr-10986-367122021-12-10T05:10:46Z Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence Gille, Véronique EDUCATION EXTERNALITIES FARM PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVER 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. 2021-12-09T19:50:30Z 2021-12-09T19:50:30Z 2020-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36712 CC BY-ND-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article South Asia India
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description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Gille, Véronique
author_facet	Gille, Véronique
author_sort	Gille, Véronique
title	Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
title_short	Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
title_full	Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
title_fullStr	Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
title_full_unstemmed	Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence
title_sort	education spillovers in farm productivity : revisiting the evidence
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36712
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Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity : Revisiting the Evidence

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