Arusha Cooray|Niklas Potrafke
Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?
Australian National University|University of Wollongong|University of Konstanz
investigate empirically whether political institutions culture religion underlie gender inequality education dataset contains 157 countries 19912006 period results indicate political institutions significantly influence education girls autocratic regimes discriminate girls denying educational opportunities democracies discriminate gender providing educational opportunities primary influence gender inequality education culture religion discrimination girls especially pronounced muslim dominated countries