Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?

Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu () and Cagla Okten ()
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Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu: Bilkent University
Cagla Okten: Bilkent University

Population Research and Policy Review, 2022, vol. 41, issue 5, No 8, 2037-2083

Abstract: Abstract We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence using the nationally representative Turkish Adult Education Survey. Prior to the reform, there is a gender gap in the association of parents’ educational attainment with their offspring’s. Daughters’ educational attainment is more dependent on their parents’ education background. We show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years reduced the impact of parental education on completion of new compulsory schooling (8 years) and post-compulsory schooling (high school) for both sons and daughters. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by about 5 percentage points in the completion of new compulsory schooling level but remains unchanged at the post-compulsory schooling level after the reform. Heterogeneous effects of the reform indicate that mandating additional years of education is an ineffective intervention in the eastern regions with poorer economic conditions, larger rural population, and more traditional gender views in reducing the gender gap in educational mobility, even at the compulsory level of education.

Keywords: Intergenerational education transmission; Gender equality; Compulsory schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I24 J16 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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