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Call for Paper Volume 8, Issue 3 (May-June 2026) Submit your research before last 3 days of June to publish your research paper in the issue of May-June.

Literacy Externality and Its Relevance - A Case Study of Bihar

Author(s) Ms. Snigdha Kalyani, Dr. Saroj Sinha
Country India
Abstract Literate member in a society can be considered as a public good which is able to create positive externality to the illiterate members, by sharing the benefits of their literacy. Within a household with literate member(s), illiterate members will have access to information and they can complete the works that requires merely the literacy skill alone. This paper aims to study the relevance of literacy externality in measuring aggregate literacy rate in a more realistic way distinguished from the conventional crude measure of literacy like literacy rate, especially in those states like Bihar, where literacy rate is very low.
Keywords Literacy externality, Effective literacy, Proximte illiterates, Isolated illiterates
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-06

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