Why Governments Should Invest More To Educate Girls. Center Discussion Paper.

By T. P. Schultz, Lawrence Chickering. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Girls Count A Global Investment & Action Agenda (2008, background): “Schultz (2002) suggests that returns to investment in female secondary education may be as high as 25 percent, with wage gains from Girls with more schooling participate in greater numbers in the labor force when they grow up, and they are able to earn more for their families and society 17 A…”
What Policies Will Reduce Gender Schooling Gaps in Developing Countries: Evidence and Interpretation (2008, background): “This has been done many times, most incisively by T.P. Schultz (1993, 2002).”
Women's Power, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Schooling in Nicaragua (2008, background): “The theoretical and empirical literature on how households make decisions is well developed (Basu, 2006; Schultz, 2002).”
Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure (2013, background): “These comprise the importance ascribed to girls’ education in economic growth (Abu-Ghaida and Klasen, 2004; Birdsall, Ross and Sabot, 1993), the significance of female education in improving both market productivity and valued non-market outcomes such as health, nutrition, longevity, fertility and c”
Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “A second generation of studies attempted to deal with this endogeneity by using measures of the gaps in resources brought to marriage, which are arguably exogenous to decision-making after marriage.3 More recently, studies have examined the effect on resource allocation of receiving 2 Note that…”
The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas (2012, positive): “In developing countries, see, e.g., Psacharopoulos (1985, 1994) and Duﬂo (2001) on returns to schooling and Schultz (1997, 2002) on the effect of schooling on health and fertility.”
Accounting for Remittance and Migration Effects on Children's Schooling (2010, positive): “13 Additionally, we account for the educational attainment of the male as well as the female spouse, factors found to be correlated with children’s educational outcomes in other studies (Haveman and Wolfe, 1995; Schultz, 2002; Breierova and Duflo, 2004).”
Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education (2004, background): “…in reaching disadvantaged children than traditional public expenditure programs, which add to the public supply of services, by building more schools (health clinics), or increasing the salary levels of existing teachers (nurses), or expending more on school (clinic) quality (Schultz, 2001).”
Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls: The Girl Effect Dividend (2011, neutral): “4 And, for example, returns to female secondary education are 15 to 25 percent higher for women than men in Thailand, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Schultz 2002).”
Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia (2006, background): “…Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia deon filmer and norbert schady World Bank I. Introduction Raising the schooling levels of girls is often regarded as an important priority for developing countries (World Bank 2001; Schultz 2002).”