摘要：This paper discusses the measurement issue of intra-household externality of literacy.
Extending the work of Basu - Foster (1998), we present axiomatic characterisations of several
e#ective literacy measures that generalizes the extent of externality e#ect on proximate
illiterates. The determinants of externality considered are several attributes of the members of
the household such as age, sex, level of education etc. We also do an empirical analysis based
on the already developed theoretical measures using interstate NSS data of India and village
level primary data from Assam, a state of India.
Proximate Illiterate, Isolated Illiterate, Measurement, Age, Gender, Education,
NSS, Assam.
