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Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

Women and men often receive the same percentage increase in their wage rates with advances in schooling. Because these returns decline with more schooling, the marginal returns for women will tend to exceed those for men, especially in countries where women are much less educated. The health and...

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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Zhang, Junsen; Rosenzweig, Mark - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …

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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How It Is Changing and Why

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

-tenths interhousehold within country inequality, and one-twentieth between gender differences in education. …

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Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey

Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollements have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern...

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Public_Private Employment Choice, Wage Differential and Gender in Turkey.

Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage...

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Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

constraints causing the large gender gap in Turkish education and the covariates related to lower overall educational levels may …

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Gender, Credit Constraints, and Education in Rural Thailand

Naranong, Viroj - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

The study examines the effects of gender and credit constraints on rural students' advancement to secondary education … results of probit estimation, consistently confirms that gender differences affect investment in boys' and girls' secondary … education differently. However, there are also some indications that the gender effect has been diminishing over time. …

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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

's wages are at parity in public administration, there is a large gender wage- gap in the private sector. Lower private returns …

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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....

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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How it is Changing and Why

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998

intercountry, three-tenths interhousehold within country inequality, and one-twentieth between gender differences in education. If … trends in household and gender inequality will require much improved data. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357727