Abstract | This paper studies the impact of women’s secondary and tertiary level educational attainment on economic growth. We regress GDP growth on female and male education explanatory variables, as well as a set of control variables, across 141 high-, middle- and low-income countries from the years 1965 to 2010. Our results suggest that female secondary and tertiary level education has a significant positive effect on GDP growth for high-income countries. No significant effect was found for low- or middle-income countries. We reference the U-Shape hypothesis to provide a potential explanation for those results. We conclude that our results propose an optimistic outlook for low- and middle-income countries in reaping the economic benefits of women pursuing both secondary and higher level education.
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