Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Arbeitspapier

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 crosscountry 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 1209

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Thema: Labor Productivity ; Economic Development ; Education ; Gender ; Turkey ; Frauenbildung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Türkei

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Tansel, Aysit ; Güngör, Nil Demet
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
• (wo): Istanbul
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/108588
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ