The Effect of Female and Male Schooling on Economic Growth in the Barro-Lee Model

Posted: 21 Jan 2000

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Paula K. Lorgelly

University of East Anglia - School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice

P. Dorian Owen

University of Otago - School of Business - Department of Economics

Abstract

Barro and Lee (1994), in an influential empirical study of the determinants of economic growth, find that, whereas growth is positively related to male schooling, it is negatively related to female schooling. Stokey (1994) has suggested that this is largely due to the influence of four Asian countries (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea) that have very high levels of growth but very low levels of female schooling, and that deleting the female education variable would cast doubt on the statistical significance of the male education variable. Deletion diagnostics and partial scatter plots are analysed to identify influential observations. The sensitivity of the Barro-Lee results to deleting selected countries from the sample and deleting female education from their growth equations is then examined. The results obtained point to the fragile nature of both the significant negative effect of female education and the significant positive effect of male education in the Barro-Lee model.

JEL Classification: O40, O15, I20

Suggested Citation

Lorgelly, Paula K. and Owen, P. Dorian, The Effect of Female and Male Schooling on Economic Growth in the Barro-Lee Model. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=179550

Paula K. Lorgelly

University of East Anglia - School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice ( email )

Norwich Research Park
Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

P. Dorian Owen (Contact Author)

University of Otago - School of Business - Department of Economics ( email )

PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

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