Dr Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

New Resources

Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
The economics of the Arab Spring, CSAE working paper
Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries, CSAE working paper
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times, CSAE working paper
CSAE Newsletter 05, Autumn 2011
Political Origins of Financial Structure, CSAE working paper
Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products, iiG Briefing Paper

Research Officer, CSAE

Biography

Geeta Gandhi Kingdon: Dr Geeta Kingdon is Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics in 1985 and her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 1994. She currently lectures in Development Economics in Oxford and has previously held a lectureship at Bristol and a Research Officership at STICERD in LSE. Her research interests include Economics of Education and Labour Economics and much of her work is based on applied micro-econometric analysis of survey data. She is on the Editorial Board of two academic journals and has extensive experience in data collection, refereeing for economics journals and consultancy work for governments. She has current research projects on India and South Africa in areas of education, school quality, unemployment, and subjective well-being.

Publications

Kingdon, G. “Where has all the bias gone? Detecting Gender Bias in the intra-household allocation of educational expenditure”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53, No. 2, January, 2005.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “How flexible are wages in response to local unemployment in South Africa?”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming 2006.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high”, Labour Economics , forthcoming 2006.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “Well-being poverty versus Income and Basic Needs poverty”, Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming 2006.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast”, World Development, 32, No. 3, March, 2004.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa”, Review of Development Economics, 8, No. 2, May 2004.
Kingdon, G., R. Cassen, K. McNay, and L. Visaria (2003) “Education and Literacy”, in T. Dyson, R. Cassen, and L. Visaria (eds) Twenty-First Century India – Population, Economy, Human Development and the Environment, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Kingdon, G. and M. Muzammil. The Political Economy of Education in India: Teacher Politics in Uttar Pradesh, Oxford University Press, Delhi, January 2003.
Kingdon, G. “The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in India: How Much Can be Explained?”, Journal of Development Studies, 39, No. 2: 25-53, December 2002.
Kingdon, G. and J. Knight. “What have we learnt about unemployment from microdatasets in South Africa?”, Social Dynamics, 27, No. 1: Spring, 2002.
Kingdon, G. and M. Muzammil. “A Political Economy of Education in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, 36, No. 32, August 11-18, 2001.
Kingdon, G. and Jeemol Unni. “Education and Women’s Labour Market Outcomes in India”, Education Economics, 9, No. 2: 173-195, August 2001.
Kingdon, G. and Jean Drèze. “School Participation in Rural India”, Review of Development Economics, 5, No. 1: 1-33, February 2001.
Kingdon, G. “Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling in India?” Journal of Development Studies, 35, No. 1: 39-65, October, 1998.
Kingdon, G. “Labour Force Participation, Returns to Education, and Sex-Discrimination in India”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 40, No. 3: 507-526, Jul.-Sept., 1997.
Kingdon, G. “The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Schools: A Case Study of Urban India”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 58, No.1: 55-80, February 1996.