A century of change in global education variability and gender differences in education.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to document and understand how trends in educational variability and the gender gap in education developed jointly over time. Main questions include: Is the education distribution among women becoming more dispersed as their average attainment surpasses that of men? Is education variability among women higher than that of men? Does the reduction-and eventual reversal-of the gender gap in education go hand-in-hand with less educational variability overall? To answer these questions we first show how overall education variability can be decomposed into four clearly interpretable components (variability among women and men, educational advantage favoring women and favoring men). We subsequently document how these components have evolved over time in the world and it

SUBMITTER: Permanyer I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6392467 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature