Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Maitreyi Das ()

No 8365, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of education in determining norms spans own and spousal education, as well as that of older educated females in the household, thus indicating sharing of education norms both within marriage and across generations. Detailed decompositions reveal that more than anything else it is the improvement in education across cohorts that has been driving the narrowing of the generational education norms gap in Bangladesh in recent years.

Keywords: gender education inequality norms; human capital; decomposition analysis; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 I29 J12 J16 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2014-08
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Published - published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.

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Journal Article: Changing norms about gender inequality in education: Evidence from Bangladesh (2015)
Working Paper: Changing norms about gender inequality in education: evidence from Bangladesh (2007)
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