Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey.

Autor/inn/en	Tansel, Aysit; Güngör, Nil Demet
Titel	Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2012), 37 S., 511,80 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 6532
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Arbeitsproduktivität; Frauenbildung; Makroökonomie; Türkei; Wirtschaftswachstum; Makroökonomie; Wirtschaftswachstum; Arbeitsproduktivität; Frauenbildung; Arbeitspapier; Türkei
Abstract	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.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2012/4