Reverse Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from Urban and Rural Households
利用多轮全国代表性家庭调查数据，发现孟加拉国农村和城市地区男孩在中学入学率和受教育年限上均落后于女孩，且非都市区性别差距最大，并探讨了有条件现金转移计划的性别差异化反应这一假设。
Abstract This paper documents a reverse gender gap in secondary schooling outcomes in Bangladesh drawing upon several rounds of nationally representative household survey data. In terms of enrolment status and years of schooling completed, boys are found to lag behind girls in the rural as well as in the urban area. Within the urban sample, the gender gap is widest in the non-metropolitan area. These findings are robust to extensive control for demand and supply-side determinants of schooling and remain unchanged even when we use a within household estimator. We consider one hypothesis, namely gender-differentiated response to a conditional cash transfer program to reconcile the findings of this reverse gender gap.