Social Exclusion and the Gender Gap in Education

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-4562

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Social Exclusion and the Gender Gap in Education

dc.contributor.author	Lewis, Maureen
dc.contributor.author	Lockheed, Marlaine
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-29T13:21:53Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-29T13:21:53Z
dc.date.issued	2008-03
dc.description.abstract	Despite a sharp increase in the share of girls who enroll in, attend, and complete various levels of schooling, an educational gender gap remains in some countries. This paper argues that one explanation for this gender gap is the degree of social exclusion within these countries, as indicated by ethno-linguistic heterogeneity, which triggers both economic and psycho-social mechanisms to limit girls' schooling. Ethno-linguistic heterogeneity initially was applied to explaining lagging economic growth, but has emerged in the literature more recently to explain both civil conflict and public goods. This paper is a first application of the concept to explain gender gaps in education. The paper discusses the importance of female education for economic and social development, reviews the evidence regarding gender and ethnic differences in schooling, reviews the theoretical perspectives of various social science disciplines that seek to explain such differences, and tests the relevance of ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity in explaining cross-country differences in school attainment and learning. The study indicates that within-country ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity partly explains both national female primary school completion rates and gender differences in these rates, but only explains average national learning outcomes when national income measures are excluded.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/03/9086476/social-exclusion-gender-gap-education
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-4562
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6498
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4562
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	ETHNIC DIFFERENCES
dc.subject	GENDER GAP
dc.subject	LEARNING OUTCOMES
dc.subject	LINGUISTIC HETEROGENEITYPSYCHOSOCIAL LIMITATIONS
dc.subject	SOCIAL EXCLUSION
dc.title	Social Exclusion and the Gender Gap in Education	en
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Gender
okr.crossref.title	Social Exclusion And The Gender Gap In Education
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okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/03/9086476/social-exclusion-gender-gap-education
okr.globalpractice	Education
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-4562
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okr.topic	Education::Primary Education
okr.topic	Education::Education For All
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Education
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Disability
okr.unit	Development Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume	1 of 1
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