Doctoral Scholar in Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Email: sarbeswarpadhan0@gmail.com
Online published on 13 June, 2019.
This paper makes an attempt towards exploring the trends and patterns of educational migration among 15–29 years’ age using various rounds of the unit level data from NSSO in India during 1992–93 to 2007–08. The study shows that access to higher education through migration has undoubtedly improved for socially backward communities, low income and residing in rural areas. However, if we look at the relative change in the odds of educational migration for different layers of the socio-economic strata, it is found that improvement for those with higher socio-income brackets, but not for those belonging to the lower socio-income groups.
Educational migration, higher education, human capital theory, binary regression
