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The Structure of Social Disparities in Education : Gender and Wealth

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dc.contributor.authorFilmer, Deon
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-26T22:43:15Z
dc.date.available2014-06-26T22:43:15Z
dc.date.issued2000-01
dc.description.abstractUsing internationally comparable household data sets (Demographic and Health Surveys), the author investigates how gender and wealth interact to generate within country inequalities in educational enrollment and attainment. He carries out multivariate analysis to assess the partial relationship between educational outcomes and gender, wealth, household characteristics (including level of education of adults, in the households), and community characteristics (including the presence of schools in the community). He finds that: 1) women are at a great educational disadvantage in countries in South Asia and North, Western, and Central Africa. 2) Gender gaps are large in a subset of countries, but wealth gaps are large in almost all of the countries studied. Moreover, in some countries where there is a heavy female disadvantage in enrollment (Egypt, India, Morocco, Niger, and Pakistan), wealth interacts with gender to exacerbate the gap in the educational outcomes. In India, for example, where there is a 2.5 percentage point difference between male and female enrollment for children from the richest households, the difference is 34 percentage points for children from the poorest households. 3) The education level of adults in the household has a significant impact on the enrollment of children in all the countries studied, even after controlling for wealth. The effect of the educational level of adult female is larger than that of the education level of adult males in some, but not all, of the countries studied. 4) The presence of a primary and a secondary school in the community has a significant relationship with enrollment in some countries only (notably in Western and Central Africa). The relationship appears not to systematically differ by children's gender.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/439014/structure-social-disparities-education-gender-wealth
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2268
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/18813
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 2268
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADULT EDUCATION
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectASSET INDEX
dc.subjectASSET INFORMATION
dc.subjectASSET VARIABLES
dc.subjectAVAILABLE DATA
dc.subjectBENEFIT INCIDENCE
dc.subjectCALL
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS
dc.subjectCOUNTRY LEVEL
dc.subjectDATA COLLECTION
dc.subjectDATA SETS
dc.subjectDATA SOURCES
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectEDUCATION LEVEL
dc.subjectEDUCATION OUTCOMES
dc.subjectEDUCATION VARIABLES
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL ENROLLMENT
dc.subjectEDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
dc.subjectENROLLMENT
dc.subjectENROLLMENT RATE
dc.subjectENROLLMENT RATES
dc.subjectFAMILY PLANNING
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectGIRLS
dc.subjectHEALTH SURVEYS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD DATA
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WEALTH
dc.subjectHOUSING
dc.subjectHUMAN RIGHTS
dc.subjectINDEXES
dc.subjectLEVEL OF EDUCATION
dc.subjectMULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
dc.subjectMULTIVARIATE REGRESSION
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY LINES
dc.subjectNET ENROLLMENT
dc.subjectPAPERS
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectPOOR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINES
dc.subjectPRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subjectRADIO
dc.subjectRESEARCH REPORT
dc.subjectSAMPLE SIZES
dc.subjectSCHOOLING
dc.subjectSCHOOLS
dc.subjectSTANDARD APPROACHES
dc.subjectSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUE
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectWEALTH INDEX
dc.titleThe Structure of Social Disparities in Education : Gender and Wealthen
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okr.crossref.titleThe Structure of Social Disparities in Education: Gender and Wealth
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T07:20:08.915695Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/439014/structure-social-disparities-education-gender-wealth
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid617031468739532221
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2268
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000094946_00012505525066
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum439014
okr.identifier.reportWPS2268
okr.language.supporteden
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okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.region.geographicalSouth Asia
okr.sectorOther Education
okr.sectorEducation
okr.topicEducation::Early Childhood Development
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicEducation::Primary Education
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Public Health Promotion
okr.topicTeaching and Learning
okr.unitPoverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group
okr.volume1
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