Increasing Educational Investments

Claude Diebolt and Faustine Perrin

Chapter Chapter 3 in Understanding Demographic Transitions, 2017, pp 95-140 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is dedicated to the study of educational investments. Both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by profound improvements in individuals’ endowments in human capital, especially for girls. The massive and widespread access to education occurred gradually from primary education to secondary education, and from secondary education to tertiary education. Long-run trends reveal strong improvements in the quality of the labor force to a larger extent for girls. The inability of gender differences in educational investments to explain the persistence of gender differences in occupation and wage questions the socially established roles, behaviors and activities that the society consider appropriate for women.

Keywords: Human Capital; Labor Force; Nineteenth Century; Primary Education; Literacy Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44651-6_3

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