The Effects of Information Technologies on Youth Access to Education: Educational Purposes and Gender Inequalities

Bengi Yanık İlhan (), Gülçin Taşkıran (), Deniz Erer and Emrullah Vermez ()
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Bengi Yanık İlhan: Altinbas University
Gülçin Taşkıran: Altinbas University
Deniz Erer: Manisa Celal Bayar University
Emrullah Vermez: Altinbas University

A chapter in Gender (In)equality and Social Development, 2025, pp 253-270 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the Covid-19 pandemic commencing in March 2020 and the initiation of online education, information technologies have become more popular among young people, thus making education and information retrieval the primary uses of the internet. This motivates us to investigate the probability of young people using the internet for informational purposes, utilizing the Household Information Technology Usage Survey (HITUS) micro-dataset collected by the Turkish Statistical Institute between 2004 and 2021, using Heckman's two-stage probit method. Our findings revealed that males are more likely to use the Internet for educational purposes than females and that young people in urban regions are more likely to engage in online educational activities. Interestingly, larger household sizes reduce the probability of Internet use for educational purposes. We also discovered that Southeastern Anatolia was the least likely to use the Internet for educational purposes during the period studied. Finally, we found that individuals whose household heads have a high school or university degree are more likely to use the Internet for educational purposes.

Keywords: Internet access; Educational inequality; ICTs; Heckman’s two-stage probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-7979-9_16

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