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What does 5 yrs of school give? 1960s-born Indian women learnt more than 1990s kids, says study -Nikhil Rampal

-ThePrint.in

Women born in 1960s with 5 years of schooling almost 100% literate, while figure was around 40% for 90s-born women, says working paper by US-based Center for Global Development.

New Delhi: There’s no doubt that India has made immense progress in its literacy rate, which rose from about 14 per cent at the time of Independence to 74 per cent in the 2011 census. But, has the quality of school education also witnessed an upward trend to match? The findings of a new study suggest not.

Five years of schooling brought relatively better learning outcomes for Indian women born in the 1960s than for those who were born in the 1990s, indicating a possible decline in the quality of primary education, according to a study by developmental economists Alexis Le Nestour, Laura Moscoviz and Justin Sandefur for the US-based think-tank Center for Global Development (CGDEV). A working paper was uploaded earlier this year.

“Taken at face value, the estimates for India suggest the probability a woman with five years of schooling would become literate was nearly 100 percent for the 1960s birth cohorts, but had fallen to roughly 40 per cent for the mid-1990s cohorts,” the study said.

While the study included data for both men and women, study co-author and CGDEV senior fellow Justin Sandefur told ThePrint via email that the results for Indian women were “more reliable” and nationally representative due to much larger sample sizes and country coverage.

Titled ‘The Long-Run Decline of Education Quality in the Developing World’, the working paper sought to examine the outcomes of primary education in 88 developing countries over several decades.

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