IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/japsta/v43y2016i13p2377-2395.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Substantial gender gap reduction in Bangladesh explained by the proximity measure of literacy and life expectancy

Author

Listed:
  • Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan
  • A. M. Azharul Islam
  • Faisal Ababneh

Abstract

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator that substantially captures the overall country level status on human welfare based on issues of equity, poverty, and gender. This study uses a proximity measure of simultaneous effect of literacy and life expectancy called literate life expectancy (LLE) as a measure of human quality. This study discusses the distribution of LLE along with giving a detail gender and spatial differentials. With the proximity indicator we quantify gander gap between the year 1981 and 2008. Over the 27 years more than substantial improvement in LLE are found among women than with far less improvement rate among men in both national and residence level. We also learn that measured over time, the indicator allows statements about the rate of change and not just static differences. The LLE is useful as this index could be used to calculate future social development by adopting different mortality and educational scenarios such as health treatment facilities, nutritious food, easy access to clean drinking water, air pollution, greenhouse emissions, psychological stress, and most importantly, poverty, which can be associated with specific policy assumptions.

Suggested Citation

  • Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan & A. M. Azharul Islam & Faisal Ababneh, 2016. "Substantial gender gap reduction in Bangladesh explained by the proximity measure of literacy and life expectancy," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(13), pages 2377-2395, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:43:y:2016:i:13:p:2377-2395
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1163527
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02664763.2016.1163527
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02664763.2016.1163527?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jejeebhoy, Shireen J., 1995. "Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience from Developing Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198290339.
    2. Ram, Rati & Schultz, Theodore W, 1979. "Life Span, Health, Savings, and Productivity," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 27(3), pages 399-421, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. S. Medina, 1996. "Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE)," Working Papers wp96103, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
    2. Jungho Kim, 2023. "Female education and its impact on fertility," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 228-228, May.
    3. Chakraborty, Shankha, 2004. "Endogenous lifetime and economic growth," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 116(1), pages 119-137, May.
    4. Michael Grimm, 2002. "The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire. A dynamic microsimulation study," Working Papers DT/2002/12, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
    5. Hera Cook, 2000. "Unseemly and unwomanly behaviour: Comparing women’s control of their fertility in Australia and England from 1890 to 1970," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 125-141, November.
    6. Solava Ibrahim & Sabina Alkire, 2007. "Agency and Empowerment: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 379-403.
    7. Jungho Kim, 2010. "Women's Education and Fertility: An Analysis of the Relationship between Education and Birth Spacing in Indonesia," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 58(4), pages 739-774, July.
    8. Prajapati, Hari Ram, 2014. "An Application of Game Theory in Strategic Decision of Family Planning," MPRA Paper 105491, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2015.
    9. Maddox, Bryan, 2007. "Worlds Apart? Ethnographic Reflections on "Effective Literacy" and Intrahousehold Externalities," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 532-541, March.
    10. Josefine Koebe & Jan Marcus, 2022. "The Length of Schooling and the Timing of Family Formation [Income Taxes and the Timing of Marital Decisions]," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 68(1), pages 1-45.
    11. Øystein Kravdal, 2000. "A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 3(3).
    12. Kodila-Tedika, Oasis, 2018. "Does Masculinity Matter for Female Leaders? Evidence in cross-section countries," MPRA Paper 84776, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Melanie Dawn Channon & Sarah Harper, 2019. "Educational differentials in the realisation of fertility intentions: Is sub-Saharan Africa different?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-14, July.
    14. Olivier Morand, 2004. "Economic growth, longevity and the epidemiological transition," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 5(2), pages 166-174, May.
    15. Krishna Mazumdar, 2001. "Improvements in Life Expectancy: 1960–1995 an Exploratory Analysis," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 55(3), pages 303-328, September.
    16. Rodrigo R. Soares, 2005. "Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(3), pages 580-601, June.
    17. Tesfalidet Tekelab & Catherine Chojenta & Roger Smith & Deborah Loxton, 2019. "Factors affecting utilization of antenatal care in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(4), pages 1-24, April.
    18. Ghosh, Sudeshna, 2017. "South Asian Countries : Economic Growth and Fertility," MPRA Paper 99891, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    19. Zeba Ayesha Sathar & Shahnaz Kazi, 2000. "Women’s Autonomy in the Context of Rural Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 39(2), pages 89-110.
    20. Yahong Liu & Shixin Huo, 2024. "Measurement of health human capital and its economic effect in China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:43:y:2016:i:13:p:2377-2395. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CJAS20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.