- Title
- Boys and Girls Educational Opportunities in Thailand: The Effects of Siblings, Migrations, School Proximity, and Village Remoteness
- Author(s)
- Sara Curran Sara Curran (Princeton University)
- Chang Chung Chang Chung (Princeton University)
- Wendy Cadge Wendy Cadge (Princeton University)
- Anchalee Varangrat Anchalee Varangrat (Institute for Population and Social Research Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhom Prathom, Thailand)
- Abstract
- Within individual countries, the paths towards increasing educational attainment are not always linear and individuals are not equally affected. Differences between boys' and girls' educational attainments are a common expression of this inequality as boys are more often favored for continued schooling. We examine the importance of birth cohort, sibship size, migration, school accessibility for explaining both the gender gap and its narrowing in secondary schooling in one district in Northeast Thailand between 1984-1994. Birth cohort is a significant explanation for the narrowing of the gender gap. Migration, sibship size, and remote village location are important explanations for limited secondary education opportunities, especially for girls.
- Creation Date
- 2002-05
- Section URL ID
- OPR
- Paper Number
- opr0205.pdf
- URL
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150906201152/http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr0205.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- I24
- Keyword(s)
- Thailand
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 11