American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Comment
American Economic Review
vol. 95,
no. 5, December 2005
(pp. 1738–1744)
Abstract
"Does increasing women's schooling raise the schooling of the next generation?" is the question posed by Jere R. Behrman and Mark R. Rosenzweig (2002). Their answer to the question is no. In fact, they conclude that raising women's schooling may lower the schooling of the next generation. We show that Behrman and Rosenzweig's results are not robust to alternative coding schemes and sample selection rules, and argue that their policy inference may be misguided.Citation
Antonovics, Kate, L., and Arthur S. Goldberger. 2005. "Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Comment." American Economic Review, 95 (5): 1738–1744. DOI: 10.1257/000282805775014353Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination