TY - GEN
T1 - Volatility of Education Aid and Female Education
AU - Bayraktar, Nihal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Positive contributions of females to economic growth cannot be denied and they can contribute more effectively to economic development if they get a better education. Thus, it is essential to explore the different ways of enhancing female education and reducing the gender gap. Such actions can be even more crucial in low-income countries where the need for higher economic growth is more pressing. The important point for these countries is that the scope and quality of education are highly dependent on foreign aid on education. This paper empirically investigates the link between schooling of female students and the volatility of foreign aid on education to better understand the impact of aid on female education and the ways of improving it. The results show that the share of female students increases with declining volatility of foreign aid in low-income countries. Another interesting finding is that the volatility of education aid also affects total students, but this effect is relatively weak when compared to female students only. The dataset covers the years 2002–2016 and 27 low-income countries from Africa and Asia.
AB - Positive contributions of females to economic growth cannot be denied and they can contribute more effectively to economic development if they get a better education. Thus, it is essential to explore the different ways of enhancing female education and reducing the gender gap. Such actions can be even more crucial in low-income countries where the need for higher economic growth is more pressing. The important point for these countries is that the scope and quality of education are highly dependent on foreign aid on education. This paper empirically investigates the link between schooling of female students and the volatility of foreign aid on education to better understand the impact of aid on female education and the ways of improving it. The results show that the share of female students increases with declining volatility of foreign aid in low-income countries. Another interesting finding is that the volatility of education aid also affects total students, but this effect is relatively weak when compared to female students only. The dataset covers the years 2002–2016 and 27 low-income countries from Africa and Asia.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-38253-7_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-38253-7_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126120137
SN - 9783030382520
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
SP - 23
EP - 41
BT - Advances in Cross-Section Data Methods in Applied Economic Research - 2019 International Conference on Applied Economics ICOAE 2019
A2 - Tsounis, Nicholas
A2 - Vlachvei, Aspasia
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - International Conference on Applied Economics ICOAE 2019
Y2 - 4 June 2019 through 6 June 2019
ER -
