Low Schooling for Girls, Slower Growth for All? Cross-Country Evidence on the Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Economic Development
利用跨国面板数据，发现教育中的性别不平等会通过降低人力资本水平、影响投资和人口增长，直接和间接地拖累长期经济增长，并解释了东亚与非洲、南亚、中东之间人均增长差异的0.4-0.9个百分点。
Using cross-country and panel \n regressions, this article investigates how gender inequality \n in education affects long-term economic growth. Such \n inequality is found to have an effect on economic growth \n that is robust to changes in specifications and controls for \n potential endogeneities. The results suggest that gender \n inequality in education directly affects economic growth by \n lowering the average level of human capital. In addition, \n growth is indirectly affected through the impact of gender \n inequality on investment and population growth. Some 0.4-0.9 \n percentage points of differences in annual per capita growth \n rates between East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, \n and the Middle East can be accounted for by differences in \n gender gaps in education between these regions.