Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Graziella Bertocchi () and Monica Bozzano

CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, vol. 61, issue 1, 263-300

Abstract: We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in a historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear versus complex families) and inheritance rules (partition versus primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors, we find that over the 1861–1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female-to-male enrollment rate ratio in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. We also find that only the effect of inheritance rules persists over the 1971–2001 period. (JEL codes: E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15).

Date: 2015
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Working Paper: Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces (2014)
Working Paper: Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces (2014)
Working Paper: Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces (2013)
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