What is it about?
The objectives of this study are threefold: firstly, to measure the impact of educational inequality on income inequality, and per capita income; secondly, to measure the impact of gender inequality in education on income inequality, per capita income and educational inequality; and lastly, to test the Kuznets inverted U-shape hypothesis between inequality in education and average year of schooling.
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Why is it important?
This study adds to the literature by analyzing whether the inequality in income increases (decreases) due to increase (decrease) in educational and gender inequality in South Asian countries. This study contributes in the existing literature by developing a measure of educational and gender inequality in education in South Asian countries.
Perspectives
Government has to provide free education in poor regions and makes employment programs to reduce the income and educational inequality respectively, while to remove gender inequality in education it is necessary to build more schools especially for girls. Government has to launch different online education programs for expansion in education at all levels.
Dr Kashif Munir
Al Qasimia University
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This page is a summary of: Impact of educational and gender inequality on income and income inequality in South Asian countries, International Journal of Social Economics, July 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijse-04-2020-0226.
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