Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89760 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4460
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. The effect tends to persist through the present day.
Subjects: 
education gender gap
Italian unification
family types
inheritance
institutions
religion
convergence
JEL: 
E02
H75
I25
J16
N33
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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