TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bertocchi, Graziella
AU  - Bozzano, Monica
        TI  - Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
        PY  - 2014/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8347
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8347
        AB  - We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. We also find that only the effect of inheritance rules persists over the 1971-2001 period.
        KW  - education gender gap
KW  - Italian Unification
KW  - family types
KW  - inheritance
KW  - institutions
KW  - religion
KW  - convergence
        ER  -