Arbeitspapier

Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to determine their quantitative importance 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-state level of labor productivity, while the effect of male education is in general either positive or insignificant. Separate examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of sensitivity analyses, such as elimination of outlier observations, controls for simultaneity and measurement errors, controls for omitted variables by including regional dummy variables, steady-state versus growth equations and considering different samples.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 2012/19

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Analysis of Education
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Subject
Labor Productivity
Economic Development
Education
Gender
Turkey
Frauenbildung
Makroökonomischer Einfluss
Arbeitsproduktivität
Wirtschaftswachstum
Türkei

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Tansel, Aysit
Güngör, Nil Demet
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Turkish Economic Association
(where)
Ankara
(when)
2012

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Tansel, Aysit
  • Güngör, Nil Demet
  • Turkish Economic Association

Time of origin

  • 2012

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