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Open AccessImpact of low fertility and early age at sterilisation on women’s formal education and skill development in South India
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Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this article provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for six I...