Illusion of Gender Parity in Education: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Bangladesh

Sijia Xu (), Abu Shonchoy and Tomoki Fujii
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Sijia Xu: East China University of Science and Technology

No 2012, Working Papers from Florida International University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Gender parity in education—an important global development goal—is often measured through school enrollment. However, this can be misleading as girls may lag behind boys in other measures. We investigate this with Bangladeshi survey data by decomposing households' education decisions into enrollment, education expenditure, and its share for the quality of education. We ï¬ nd a strong profemale bias in enrollment but promale bias in the other two decisions. This contradirectional gender bias is partly explained by conditional cash transfer programs, which promoted girls' secondary school enrollment but did not narrow the gaps in the intrahousehold allocation of education resources.

Keywords: education parity; conditional cash transfer; gender; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D15 H52 I28 J16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 75 pages
Date: 2020-12
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