How do educational choices for girls and boys affect the economy? By: Boschini, A
Published by: The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM), 2006
Via: Eldis
What are the macroeconomic repercussions of different educational subject choices made by girls and boys, particularly at university level? This paper suggests that such choices can skew ways in which capacities are distributed, which lowers technological change and the stock of human capital, and thus hurts growth. These findings are based on empirical research in a cross-section of 69 countries over a period of 28 years. Some of the paper's key points are:
- while the number of female students has increased to such an extent that in many countries they dominate higher education, there is an impressive lack of convergence in men's and women's choices of field of study
- often choices are not based on ability but on social norms, affecting the educational outcomes and motivation to take studies further
- the social norm has pervasive consequences for economic growth by affecting the number and average ability of skilled in the economy
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