Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses / Tas, Emcet O
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2013Description: Online-Ressource (36 p)Additional physical formats: Tas, Emcet O: Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6734Online resources: Summary: This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes individual-level data from large, harmonized, and representative samples of country censuses. Using an estimation method analogous to difference-in-differences, the paper finds that gender-based differences in literacy, primary school completion, and secondary school completion are larger for minority ethnic groups compared with others or, alternatively, ethnicity-based differences are larger for women compared with men. The findings suggest that the intersection of gender and ethnicity confers cumulative disadvantage for minority groups, especially in Latin America. The paper discusses the implications of these findings on the design of, targeting in, and resource allocation for development programsPPN: PPN: 834981041Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLNo physical items for this record
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