Social Sciences
8 years ago

Household Literacy Distribution Impacts Deprivation Levels Among Illiterates

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why These Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes
Kaushik Basu, James E. Foster, S. Subramanian

Paper Summary

The distribution of literates across households matters in measuring literacy. Having at least one literate person in a household benefits illiterate members. Data from Bangladesh suggests that an illiterate in a household with no literates is more deprived than one in a household with at least one literate member.

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