Mapping the Educational Attainment in Turkey

Alpay Filiztekin and Burhan Karahasan

No 285, EY International Congress on Economics II (EYC2015), November 5-6, 2015, Ankara, Turkey from Ekonomik Yaklasim Association

Abstract: This study demonstrates the distribution of educational attainment in Turkey based on district level data for 1990 and 2010. Focusing on the economically active working age population (25-64 age band) our results indicate that; even average years of schooling becomes spatially more alike, higher education levels witness an on-going divergence. Additionally our results indicate that different segments of the society realize different levels of improvement in education attainment. Female population and rural population are observed to be the most disadvantageous individuals. These results become even more remarkable once the spatial spill overs and the persistence of spatial heterogeneity is considered.

Keywords: Education; Spatial Distribution; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015
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