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Compulsory Schooling in Turkey, Educational Attainment, and the Gender Gap

In: ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Theory and Practice

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  • Jennifer Ward-Batts
  • Kaitlin Nowacki
  • Toseef Azid

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Education is one of the factors widely understood to affect women’s empowerment. Gender-neutral compulsory schooling requirements can decrease gender gaps in education in some circumstances. Compulsory schooling in Turkey was increased in 1997 from 5 years to 8 years. We examine the effect of this change on educational attainment, and in particular investigate whether there was a differential effect of this change on females relative to males. Using 2003 Demographic and Health Surveys data, we find an overall positive effect on the probability of completion of 8 years, as well as a positive differential effect for females of the change on both years of education and probability of completion of 8 years. We also find, as predicted, that the gender gap narrowed in low-wealth families in particular. However, we find a persistent gender gap in the country’s more traditional, less-developed eastern region.

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  • Jennifer Ward-Batts & Kaitlin Nowacki & Toseef Azid, 2020. "Compulsory Schooling in Turkey, Educational Attainment, and the Gender Gap," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Toseef Azid & Jennifer L Ward-Batts (ed.), ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD Theory and Practice, chapter 25, pages 523-545, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811212154_0025
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    Keywords

    Islam; Gender Studies; Women Studies; Quran; Sunnah; Female Empowerment; Shariah; Prophet Muhammad; Business in Islam; Patriarchal Fundamentalism; Secular Feminism; Women's Rights; Human Rights; Aceh; Gender Empowerment Measure; Globalization; Press Freedom; Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; Education; Arab World; Nanofinance; Microfinance; Labour; Ottoman Empire; Iran; Waqaf; Waqf; Malaysia; Pakistan; Singapore; Dual-Income Households; Bangladesh; Food Security; Human Capital; Saudi Arabia; Turkey;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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