Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India

No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers21 Jun 2013Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of IndiaAuthors/Editors: Deon FilmerDeon Filmerhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-1994SectionsAboutPDF (0.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:October 1998 The relationship between household wealth and educational enrollment of children can be estimated without expenditure data. A method for doing so-which uses an index based on household asset ownership indicators-is proposed and defended in this paper. In India, children from the wealthiest households are over 30 percentage points more likely to be in school than those from the poorest households, although this gap varies considerably across states. To estimate the relationship between household wealth and the probability that a child (aged 6…