Essays on gender, development and human capital investment

• Autores: Dimitria Gavalyugova
• Directores de la Tesis: Alessandro Tarozzi (dir. tes.), Maria Libertad González Luna (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2021
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Pauline Grosjean (presid.), Gianmarco. León (secret.), Denni Tommasi (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Economía, Finanzas y Empresa por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• Materias:
  • Ciencias económicas
    • Economía sectorial
      • Educación
  • Sociología
    • Cambio y desarrollo social
      • Países en vía de desarrollo
    • Grupos sociales
      • Clases sociales
      • Posición social de la mujer
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  • This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian garment industry on women’s and children’s well being. It documents a sizeable increase in schooling at early ages, but also increased secondary dropouts. It also demonstrates that the growth of garment manufacturing is associated with delays in marriage and childbearing, and potentially long-lasting improvements in girls’ height. The second chapter uses a natural experiment from an Australian state and shows that relaxing compulsory mathematics and science requirements widens the gender gap in high-school STEM subject uptake. It also documents a positive externality from compulsory mathematics requirements on the uptake of science subjects, which is consistent with a setting in which it is costly to study science without any mathematics. The third chapter presents evidence that the growth of private primary schooling may have negative implications for equality in educational opportunities and learning outcomes in rural India.