Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?

Arusha Cooray and Niklas Potrafke

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period. The results indicate that political institutions do not significantly influence education of girls: autocratic regimes do not discriminate against girls in denying educational opportunities and democracies do not discriminate by gender when providing educational opportunities. The primary influence on gender inequality in education is through culture and religion. Discrimination against girls is especially pronounced in Muslim dominated countries.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (77)

Published in European Journal of Political Economy 2 27(2011): pp. 268-280

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion? (2011)
Working Paper: Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion? (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lmu:muenar:20110

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics Ludwigstr. 28, 80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tamilla Benkelberg ().