2014
DOI: 10.35188/unu-wider/2014/731-8
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Gender inequality, female leadership, and aid allocation: A panel analysis of aid for education

Abstract: This paper contributes to the aid allocation literature by assessing whether recipient countries with persistent gender inequality in schooling receive more aid for education. Furthermore, we analyze whether female leadership of the relevant ministries in the donor countries results in better targeted aid by directing aid for education to where girls receive less schooling than boys. Our empirical findings suggest that female as well as male leaders have rewarded countries with more years of schooling of all c… Show more

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“…Dreher et al (2015a) find that female development ministers are more responsive to gender issues when allocating aid than their male counterparts. Kleemann et al (2016) discover only minor gender differences in the allocation of aid for education. A systematic analysis of development minister characteristics is still lacking.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Dreher et al (2015a) find that female development ministers are more responsive to gender issues when allocating aid than their male counterparts. Kleemann et al (2016) discover only minor gender differences in the allocation of aid for education. A systematic analysis of development minister characteristics is still lacking.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Similar to allocation decisions at the national level, needs-based considerations play an important role at the local level, and projects are thought to gravitate towards poorer regions [35][36][37]. In general, donors might also allocate higher aid flows to countries with larger gender gaps in specific sectors [38,39]. Recent studies using geocoded data on project locations point out that aid is not always allocated to the poorest areas [40,41].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…6 Some evidence also suggests that the gender of international development ministers is related to aid quality (Kleemann et al 2016;Fuchs and Richert 2018;Dreher et al 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%