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Increasing Educational Investments

In: Understanding Demographic Transitions

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  • Claude Diebolt

    (University of Strasbourg)

  • Faustine Perrin

    (Lund University)

Abstract

This chapter is dedicated to the study of educational investments. Both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by profound improvements in individuals’ endowments in human capital, especially for girls. The massive and widespread access to education occurred gradually from primary education to secondary education, and from secondary education to tertiary education. Long-run trends reveal strong improvements in the quality of the labor force to a larger extent for girls. The inability of gender differences in educational investments to explain the persistence of gender differences in occupation and wage questions the socially established roles, behaviors and activities that the society consider appropriate for women.

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  • Claude Diebolt & Faustine Perrin, 2017. "Increasing Educational Investments," Population Economics, in: Understanding Demographic Transitions, chapter 0, pages 95-140, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:popchp:978-3-319-44651-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44651-6_3
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