TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Asadullah, Niaz
AU  - Wahhaj, Zaki
        TI  - Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh
        PY  - 2012/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7059
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7059
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - burka
KW  - school availability
KW  - gender norms
KW  - female education
KW  - madrasa
KW  - Bangladesh
        ER  -