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Reverse Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from Urban and Rural Households

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: This paper documents a reverse gender gap in secondary schooling outcomes in Bangladesh drawing upon several rounds of nationally representative household survey data. In terms of enrolment status and years of schooling completed, boys are found to lag behind girls in the rural as well as in the urban area. Within the urban sample, the gender gap is widest in the non-metropolitan area. These findings are robust to extensive control for demand and supply-side determinants of schooling and remain unchanged even when we use a within household estimator. We consider one hypothesis, namely gender-differentiated response to a conditional cash transfer program to reconcile the findings of this reverse gender gap.

Source: The Journal of Development Studies

DOI: 10.1080/00220380902935824

Authors: Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury

Institutions: University of Reading, World Bank

Language: English

Topic: Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Quality education, No poverty

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council