The Role of Culture on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey

Akyol, Pelin; Ökten, Çağla

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“…Finally, the value of future earnings would be discounted more for girls as daughters are more likely to move away from their parents after marriage. Since those parental attitudes which lead girls to have a lower level of education are more apparent in low educated families (Akyol and Okten, 2019), parental attitudes might also be a reason for the gender differences in the association between parents' and offspring's education.…”

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“…Several studies identified parental attitudes as a source of women's lower educational attainment in Turkey (Rankin and Aytac ¸, 2006;Caner et al, 2016), West Africa (Glick and Sahn, 2000), Brazil (Emerson and Souza, 2007) and India (Kingdon, 2002;Kingdon, 2005;Pal, 2004). Parents with low levels of education are less likely to have genderequal views regarding educational and labor market outcomes of their offspring (Akyol and Okten, 2019). Hence it is an important policy question to what extent government policies can mitigate the adverse effects of the role parental attitudes play in leading to a higher intergenerational educational persistence for daughters.…”

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