Effects of Female Education on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Empirical Study

Öztunç, Hakan; Oo, Zar Chi; Serin, Zehra Vildan

doi:10.12738/estp.2015.2.2351

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“…Educational opportunity for women has also received a great deal of political attention in many developing countries and most existing studies report positive effects of female education on economic progress, as expected [17][18][19][20][21][22]. A recent study by Cabeza-García, et al [23] examines the link between economic growth and gender factors, where the latter is analyzed through four dimensions of education, fertility, employment, and democracy.…”

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Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth

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Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female education may, however, cause other socio-economic gains which are not captured by higher wage or better compensation package for the educated female worker in the labor market (positive externality). This paper investigates the casual effect of enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After addressing the endogeneity issue associated with gender education inequality employing a novel instrumental variable (IV), we find mitigating gender education inequality to be associated with lower infant mortality and poverty rates and improvements in health and environmental conditions. Our IV estimation result reports that a one-standard-deviation increase in the female-to-male ratio of average years of schooling is associated with a lower poverty rate by about 0.98 percentage points. The results indicate that expanding women’s educational opportunities is an effective way to promote inclusive growth.

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“…Research also shows the relationship between gender equality and poverty reduction/economic growth at both micro-and macro-levels (Oztunc et al, 2015). As World Bank projected in 2018, ending child marriage in Malawi, for example, would generate about a billion dollars in terms of purchasing power parity per year by 2030.…”

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Alternative education paths for pregnant girls and young mothers in Tanzania

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Xiu-lan

2021

Sexuality Gender & Policy

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This paper aimed to elaborate the importance of investing in girls’ educating for socio‐economic development, by describing the Tanzania's Alternative Education Paths, following the ban of pregnant girls and young mothers in public regular schools. Qualitative design (document review) was used to collect and analyze data from different documents and official websites such as World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, and Ministries of Education. 3.6 million Primary and secondary aged children are out of school, and 5,500 girls drop out of school every year because of pregnancy in Tanzania. Open schools and Folk Development Colleges are not in good quality but opted as alternative paths for dropouts. Chinese adult education system and provision of sex education are few suggestions lamented in this article. Girls' education is essential and with the additional possible alternatives of ensuring pregnant girls’ right to education, the paper will help policymakers to think about the best option of ensuring pregnant girls’ and young mothers’ right to education.

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“…Power may also be experienced through the ability to make decisions congruent with their own desires and to speak freely even in the face of opposition (Lips & Hastings, 2012;Dougherty, Dorr, & Pulice, 2016;Novek, Menec, Tran, & Bell, 2013). This active participation also generates great health benefits and independence, and it eliminates the feeling of being a burden to society (Kim, 2012).…”

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The Other Women in Dialogic Literary Gatherings

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This paper is based on Freire's conception of dialogic action (Freire, 1970). Drawing on this conception, Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLG) were created in 1978 in a working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona. We examine four nonacademic women who have participated in DLG for more than 20 years and who have been traditionally excluded from decision-making processes in various personal and social spaces. We demonstrate how these women transform their selfconcept as readers and learners by engaging in reading and enjoying classic literature, thus becoming empowered as social agents. The transformative dialogues generated in DLG prompted by individually reading aloud and collectively discussing the morals and social values of the classics mobilise participants. Keywords ResumenEste trabajo se basa en la concepción de Freire de la acción dialógica (Freire, 1970). Partiendo de esta concepción, las Tertúlias Literarios Dialógicos (DLG) creadas en 1978 en un barrio obrero de Barcelona. Analizamos cuatro mujeres que participan en DLG hace más de 20 años, las cuales tradicionalmente han sido excluidas de los procesos de desicions de espacios personales y sociales. Demostramos cómo estas mujeres transforman su autoconcepto como lectoras y aprendices al participar en la lectura y el disfrute de la literatura clásica, empoderándose así como agentes sociales. Los diálogos transformadores generados en las TLD, impulsados por la lectura individual en voz alta y la discusión colectiva de los valores morales y sociales de los clásicos, movilizan a las participantes.

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Effects of Female Education on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Empirical Study

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth

Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth

Alternative education paths for pregnant girls and young mothers in Tanzania

The Other Women in Dialogic Literary Gatherings

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