Does Job Prospect Influence School Enrolment for Women in South Asia?

Saibal Kar () and Archita Pramanik
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Archita Pramanik: New Alipore College

A chapter in Risks and Resilience of Emerging Economies, 2023, pp 239-260 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It is well-known that school enrolment and retention of female students in most countries of South Asia are abysmally poor. While some recent improvements have been made possible via direct transfers to attract female students in school, the factors that can make participation natural and widespread remain elusive. This chapter tries to link school enrolment to prospects in industry and service sectors in these countries. We find that rise in industrial jobs for women invariably attracts female students to secondary school enrolment, which is not similar to rise in job prospects in services. Female school enrolment is also strongly influenced by peer-effects. We explore male industrial jobs and related interaction effects in establishing the proposed relation for eight South Asian countries between 1994 and 2018 via use of dynamic panel estimations.

Keywords: Schooling; Female employment; Industry; Panel; South Asia; J24; J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4063-9_12

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