IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/jintdv/v26y2014i1p59-76.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Analysing The Gender Gap In Education Attainment: A Simple Framework With Application To Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Minh Cong Nguyen
  • Quentin Wodon

Abstract

A simple decomposition is provided to analyse the gender gap in educational attainment with an application to Ghana. The decomposition considers six conditional steps required for completing high school, namely starting and completing primary school, starting and completing junior high school, and starting and completing senior high school. Using household surveys parameters are estimated conditionally on having completed the previous step. By estimating the decomposition over time and comparing parameters between groups, we are able to assess whether the gender gap is being reduced over time and where dropping out takes place in the education system for various groups. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Minh Cong Nguyen & Quentin Wodon, 2014. "Analysing The Gender Gap In Education Attainment: A Simple Framework With Application To Ghana," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(1), pages 59-76, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:59-76
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "Тематическая Работа: Всестороннее Образование [Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education]," MPRA Paper 45353, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. David Ansong & Moses Okumu & Travis J. Albritton & Eva Paige Bahnuk & Eusebius Small, 2020. "The Role of Social Support and Psychological Well-Being in STEM Performance Trends across Gender and Locality: Evidence from Ghana," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 13(5), pages 1655-1673, October.
    3. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "ورقة مواضيعية: التعليم الشامل [Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education]," MPRA Paper 45351, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "专题论文：全面教育 [Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education]," MPRA Paper 45356, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Bago, Jean-Louis & Souratié, Wamadini M. & Ouédraogo, Ernest & Lompo, Miaba Louise & Ouédraogo, Moussa & Perrault, Nicolas, 2019. "Is there an early gender gap in Ghanaian children development? Evidence from 3-4 years old boys and girls," MPRA Paper 95876, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Seshie-Nasser, Hellen A. & Oduro, Abena D., 2016. "Delayed primary school enrolment among boys and girls in Ghana," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 107-114.
    7. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "Documento temático: Educación integral [Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education]," MPRA Paper 45354, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Christian Kweku Darko & Fiona Carmichael, 2020. "Education of Biological and Fostered Children in Ghana: The Influence of Relationships with the Household Head and Household Structure," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(4), pages 487-504, May.
    9. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "Document thématique : L’éducation globale pour tous [Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education]," MPRA Paper 45352, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    10. Dopart, Alethea & Wodon, Quentin, 2012. "Thematic Paper: Comprehensive Education," MPRA Paper 45309, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:26:y:2014:i:1:p:59-76. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.