Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

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We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. The effect tends to persist through the present day.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4460

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Institutions and the Macroeconomy ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions ; Education and Economic Development ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913 ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: education gender gap ; Italian unification ; family types ; inheritance ; institutions ; religion ; convergence

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bertocchi, Graziella ; Bozzano, Monica
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89760
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ