Are educational gender gaps a brake on economic development? Some cross-country empirical evidence
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: This paper estimates a neoclassical growth model that includes female and male education as separate explanatory variables. The model can be reparameterised so that the gender gap in education enters the model. The interpretation of its coefficient depends crucially on what other education variables appear in the equation. The average longrun effects of female and male education on output per worker are estimated for a cross section of countries using long time averages of the data. The results support the World Bank’s emphasis on the importance of female education in raising labour productivity and are robust to various sensitivity analyses.
Source: Oxford Economic Papers
DOI: 10.1093/oep/54.1.118
Author: S. Knowles
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2023753941