Going to school in Purdah. Female schooling, mobility norms and madrasas in Bangladesh.

Autor/inn/en	Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki
Titel	Going to school in Purdah. Female schooling, mobility norms and madrasas in Bangladesh.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2012), 25 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 7059
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Soziale Norm; Schulbesuch; Geschlecht; Islam; Frauenbildung; Arbeitspapier; Bangladesch
Abstract	This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework where the probability of children's school participation varies with respect to a non - economic factor - how the community observes social norms regarding female mobility - conditional upon the types of available schools. Household data from the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non - religious secondary schools and madrasas to test our theoretical predictions. We find that in communities which are more "progressive", in the sense that women have a relatively high level of mobility, the effect of non-religious school availability on attendance does not vary by gender. However in the more "conservative communities", female schooling is more sensitive to the availability of, or distance to, madrasas.
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Update	2013/2