Per Child Expenditure on Education in Delhi
Aditi Kumar & David Clarance
Problem Statement:
To extend the time series data from 2003 to 2009 (?) on the per child expenditure on education in Delhi.
Research Method:
Quantitative
Secondary
Past Research on the subject:
Government expenditure on elementary and secondary education in Delhi (1993-2004), Vipin Veetil.
Feasibility Constraints:
Resources: Government budget books
Government expenditure on elementary and secondary education in Delhi (1993-2004), Vipin Veetil.
Evaluating progress:
Expected timeline:
A)End of Week 1: Finish collecting, analyzing and computing for the year 2004(?)
B) End of Week 2: Finish “ “ for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007.
C) End of Week 3: Finish “ “ for the years 2008 and 2009.
D) End of Week 4: Compile and complete the time series data.
E) End of Week 5: Hopefully, finish writing the paper.
Risk factors:
Acquisition of the budget books.
Outputs:
A)Research paper
B)Oped
straight forward and good project! First step should be get the budget books, the Delhi Secretariat would be a good place to begin. Talk to Sujatha so see if they had budget books at CCS.
We can perhaps get some one to enter data onto an excel sheet once you we’ve the budget books.
Also, have a look at two papers from internship 2005: Anil’s and mine.
A computation paper is not just about deriving a number, but about the process of how you reached the number. Discuss the quality of data, possible errors, any assumptions you make.
Compute both nominal and real expenditure. In the 2005 paper I think I used 1993-94 as based prices, and expressed all else in terms of that year for real comparison.
Enjoy computing!