Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …

estimation results—that the policy has no effect on men's schooling, contrary to the findings of the previous literature. However …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible …

characteristics of the school account for the entire difference in the treatment effect by gender …

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which … evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap …

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …