Gender gap in current school enrolment: selection among ”irregular” student?
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Tenikue, Michel
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Many developing countries face a pro-male gender gap in schooling, as boys are more likely to be enrolled at school than girls. This paper examines whether the current enrolment gap prevails at the same time among ”regular” and ”irregular” children. Regular children are children who complete primary education between the age of 12 and 15 years. Irregular children are the rest. We investigate the gender gap in schooling empirically using data provided by the 2001 Cameroon Household Survey. The empirical framework allows for a different gender effect among regular and irregular children. It also accounts for selection into the two groups. Results show no male-female difference among regular children. Among irregular children however, females are more likely to stay out of schools. We therefore suggest that, independently of the source of the gender gap, it seems to be at work mostly among irregular children.
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2009-10-08
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