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Gender Inequality, Female Leadership and Aid Allocation

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  • Linda Kleemann
  • Peter Nunnenkamp
  • Rainer Thiele

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This paper contributes to the aid allocation literature by assessing whether recipient countries with persistent gender inequality in schooling receive more aid for education. Furthermore, we analyze whether female leadership of the relevant ministries in the donor countries results in better targeted aid by directing aid for education to where girls receive less schooling than boys. Our empirical findings suggest that female as well as male leaders have rewarded countries with more years of schooling of all children, or specifically of girls, rather than allocating aid for education according to general or gender‐specific needs with regard to schooling. Female leadership appears to have played a marginal role in the allocation of aid for education. © 2016 UNU‐WIDER. Journal of International Development published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Linda Kleemann & Peter Nunnenkamp & Rainer Thiele, 2016. "Gender Inequality, Female Leadership and Aid Allocation," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(3), pages 376-395, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:28:y:2016:i:3:p:376-395
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    1. Tobias Heinrich & Yoshiharu Kobayashi, 2022. "Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(1), pages 30-47, February.
    2. Fuchs, Andreas & Richert, Katharina, 2015. "Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving?," Working Papers 0604, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
    3. Ranjula Bali Swain & Supriya Garikipati & Fan Yang Wallentin, 2020. "Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance in Recipient Countries?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(7), pages 1171-1193, October.

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