성별 교육불평등의 발생 원인과 기회비용에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Causes and Opportunity Costs of Gender Educational Inequality)

Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth

“…Whaley [37], studying the relationship between gender education inequality and crime rates, found the gender education gap to be positively related to changes in rape statistics, and Karoui and Feki [38] described a process whereby female education lowers the fertility rate and improves educational attainment for the next generation. Kim, et al [3], investigating the link between gender education inequality and inclusive growth, employing an approach and data similar to those used in this paper, found that a high gender gap, although not significantly related to GDP, negatively influences sustainable economic development. The present study contributes to the existing literature by empirically examining the causality between female education and various measures of inclusive growth.…”

“…For this purpose, we exploited cross-country variation in the elementary school completion rate across gender. The key insight is that the gender education inequality is in part explained by the principal-agent problem that occurs when parents decide how much to invest in their children's education [3]. To the extent that parents strategically allocate greater resources to sons' than daughters' education in anticipation of recouping their investment in the form of male workers' higher wages, sons are expected to be more likely than daughters to finish elementary school.…”

“…Kim, et al [3] analyzed the social cost of the gender education gap in terms of the human development, environmental performance, and other indexes and measures. To measure the gender education gap, Kim, et al [3] adopted the gap between the secondary education completion rate by females and males. The present study extends their work by incorporating analysis of the poverty rate and performing IV and fixed effects regressions to support casual interpretation of our results.…”