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The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap with Economic Development

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  • Feng, Ying
  • Ren, Jie
  • Rendall, Michelle

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The strikingly large gender education gap in low-income countries robustly narrows and reverses with economic development. To study the driving forces quantitatively, we propose a three-sector framework in which development features exogenous skill-biased technological change, structural change, gender-biased technological change, changes in marriage markets, and home productivity improvement. The model is parameterized to match contrasting labor market outcomes by education and gender across the development spectrum. Counterfactual exercises show that skill-biased technological change and structural change explain most of the narrowing gender education gap. Our model suggests that the marketization of services becomes important only after economics are sufficiently developed.

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  • Feng, Ying & Ren, Jie & Rendall, Michelle, 2023. "The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap with Economic Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 17786, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:17786
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    Keywords

    Development; Structural change; Skill-biased technical change;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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