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Olivier Marie
Olivier Marie
We are very pleased to announce that Olivier Marie will be our Keynote Speaker for our workshop.
We are very pleased to announce that Olivier Marie will be our Keynote Speaker for our workshop.
Olivier is the Endowed Professor of Labour Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University. He also has research affiliations at: TI, IZA, CEPR, CEP, & CESifo.
Olivier is the Endowed Professor of Labour Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University. He also has research affiliations at: TI, IZA, CEPR, CEP, & CESifo.
Olivier's research interests include: economics of crime, labour economics, economics of education, micro-econometrics, public economics.
Olivier's research interests include: economics of crime, labour economics, economics of education, micro-econometrics, public economics.
The paper Olivier will be presenting at the workshop is:
The paper Olivier will be presenting at the workshop is:
``Reducing Gender Biases in Education Investment: The Unexpected Effect of Egypt’s Decrease in Years of Compulsory Schooling" - with Ahmed Elsayed (IZA).
``Reducing Gender Biases in Education Investment: The Unexpected Effect of Egypt’s Decrease in Years of Compulsory Schooling" - with Ahmed Elsayed (IZA).
Abstract:
Abstract:
We investigate the impact of reducing the cost of education on households’ human capital investment decision in their children by gender. We exploit a unique policy reform in Egypt’s education system which reduced the years of compulsory schooling from nine to eight years. Using data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey we compare treated and non-treated individuals within schools depending on implementation timing. As expected, the reform (mechanically) increased the probability to finish compulsory education. More surprisingly, we find that it also had a strong positive impact on the proportion of students that finished the next education stage and, consequently, increased total completed years of schooling. This secondary effect is entirely driven by changes in girl’s educational outcome and especially by those from poorer households. We further show that this increase in female education investment was rewarded with positive longer term impacts on women’s labor market and marriage outcomes.
We investigate the impact of reducing the cost of education on households’ human capital investment decision in their children by gender. We exploit a unique policy reform in Egypt’s education system which reduced the years of compulsory schooling from nine to eight years. Using data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey we compare treated and non-treated individuals within schools depending on implementation timing. As expected, the reform (mechanically) increased the probability to finish compulsory education. More surprisingly, we find that it also had a strong positive impact on the proportion of students that finished the next education stage and, consequently, increased total completed years of schooling. This secondary effect is entirely driven by changes in girl’s educational outcome and especially by those from poorer households. We further show that this increase in female education investment was rewarded with positive longer term impacts on women’s labor market and marriage outcomes.
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