The impact of gender equality on education inequality: a global analysis based on GMM dynamic panel estimation

• Main Authors: Baloch, Amdadullah, Mohd Noor, Zaleha, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Mhd Bani, Nor Yasmin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65357/1/%288%29%20IJEM%20%28S3%29%202017%20THE%20IMPACT%20OF%20GENDER%20EQUALITY%20ON%20EDUCATION%20INEQUALITY.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65357/; http://www.ijem.upm.edu.my/vol11noS3/(8)%20IJEM%20(S3)%202017%20THE%20IMPACT%20OF%20GENDER%20EQUALITY%20ON%20EDUCATION%20INEQUALITY.pdf

Gender and education inequalities are a widespread phenomenon. This study investigates the impact of gender equality and its sub-indices on education inequality using panel data of 103 countries, over the period 2006-2014. Results reveal, by employing the System Generalize Method of Moment (Sys-GMM) estimation method, gender equality and its subindices of gender equality; health and survival, economic participation and opportunity and political empowerment gender equality exert a significant negative effect on education inequality, indicating that higher gender equality between males and females results in lower education inequality. GDP per capita, schooling and democracy have a negative and significant effect on education inequality. Conversely, unemployment, population density and dependency have a positive and significant impact on education distribution. Finally, the result implies that higher gender equality is the primary pathway to lower education inequality or achieving greater fairness in education access.