Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel () and Nil Demet Güngör

Chapter 3 in Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa:The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies, 2016, pp 57-86 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Several empirical studies have examined the gender-differentiated effects of education on economic growth or on a steady-state level of economic output, using cross-country data to determine the quantitative importance of these effects and the direction of correlation. This chapter reports on a similar study of the gender effects of education using province-level data for Turkey. It finds that female education positively and significantly affects the steady-state level of labor productivity, while male education has either positive or insignificant effects. A separate examination of the effect of the educational gender gap finds a negative relationship with output. The results are robust to a number of sensitivity analyses, such as elimination of outlier observations, controls for simultaneity and measurement errors, controls for omitted variables through the inclusion of regional dummy variables, the use of steady-state versus growth equations, and the consideration of different samples.

Keywords: Middle East and North Africa; Women's Welfare; Gender Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Journal Article: Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey (2013)
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Working Paper: Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey (2012)
Working Paper: Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey (2012)
Working Paper: Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey (2012)
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