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SIM, Seung-Gyu
Department Aoyama Gakuin University Department of International Economics, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2019/06 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth |
| Contribution Type | Collaboration |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 11(12) |
| Author and coauthor | Gihoon Hong, Soyoung Kim, Geunhwan Park, and Seung-Gyu Sim |
| Details | This paper investigates the casual effect of enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After addressing the endogeneity issue associated with gender education inequality employing a novel instrumental variable (IV), we find mitigating gender education inequality to be associated with lower infant mortality and poverty rates and improvements in health and environmental conditions. Our IV estimation result reports that a one-standard-deviation increase in the female-to-male ratio of average years of schooling is associated with a lower poverty rate by about 0.98 percentage points. The results indicate that expanding women’s educational opportunities is an effective way to promote inclusive growth. |