TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blunch, Niels-Hugo
AU  - Das, Maitreyi Bordia
        TI  - Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
        PY  - 2014/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8365
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8365
        AB  - This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of education in determining norms spans own and spousal education, as well as that of older educated females in the household, thus indicating sharing of education norms both within marriage and across generations. Detailed decompositions reveal that more than anything else it is the improvement in education across cohorts that has been driving the narrowing of the generational education norms gap in Bangladesh in recent years.
        KW  - gender education inequality norms
KW  - human capital
KW  - decomposition analysis
KW  - Bangladesh
        ER  -