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Overview

Geeta Kingdon is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus within the social sciences. Their work primarily addresses issues related to education, safety research, sociology, political science, and health professions, with a significant emphasis on the subfield of education.

The scientist's notable research topics include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Social and Economic Development in India
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality

Geeta Kingdon has contributed extensively to academic literature, with publications appearing in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Development Studies
  • The World Bank Economic Review
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kingdon include:

  • "The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review" (2020), The Journal of Development Studies
  • "Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning During COVID" (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital" (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?" (2023), The World Bank Economic Review
  • "Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen Over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017" (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators working alongside Kingdon include:

  • Sandip Datta
  • Supreet Kaur
  • Heather Schofield
  • Christina M. Brown
  • Christina L. Brown

Best Publications

  • School Participation in Rural India

    Jean Drèze;Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • The progress of school education in India

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015

    Jeff Waage;Rukmini Banerji;Oona Campbell;Ephraim Chirwa

  • Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;John Knight

  • Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;John Knight

  • THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC EDUCATION: A CASE‐STUDY OF URBAN INDIA†

    Geeta Kingdon

  • Unemployment in South Africa 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies

    Geeta Kingdon;John Knight

  • Where Has All the Bias Gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Expenditure

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  • Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;John Knight

  • Education and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;Jeemol Unni

  • Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure

    Mehtabul Azam;Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

    Monazza Aslam;Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in India: How Much Can Be Explained?

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  • The Changing Pattern of Wage Returns to Education and Its Implications

    Christopher Colclough;Geeta Kingdon;Harry Patrinos

  • Teacher Unions, Teacher Pay and Student Performance in India: A Pupil Fixed Effects Approach

    Geeta Kingdon;Francis Teal

  • Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;John Knight

  • Gender and household education expenditure in Pakistan

    Monazza Aslam;Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high

    Geeta Kingdon;John Knight

  • The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

  • Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? Some evidence from India

    Geeta Gandhi Kingdon;Francis Teal

  • What can teachers do to raise pupil achievement

    Monazza Aslam;Geeta Kingdon

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Viroj Tangcharoensathien Ministry of Public Health

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