Female Role Model Impact on the Gender Attitudes of Children: Evidence from Elementary Schools in Somalia

dc.creator	Serra, Danila
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-05T19:16:56Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-05T19:16:56Z
dc.date.issued	2021-02
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/192665
dc.description	Achieving an education in the poorest countries is difficult. Both infrastructures and human resources may be lacking, and the demand for education may be low. Moreover, the prevailing gender norms may be biased against women, leading to severe imbalances in access to education and higher-return jobs. This brief reports on an intervention consisting in male and female college students visiting elementary schools in Somalia, with the aim of increasing educational aspirations and reducing gender inequality.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 12;Issue 1
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Somalia	en
dc.subject	education	en
dc.subject	gender attitudes	en
dc.title	Female Role Model Impact on the Gender Attitudes of Children: Evidence from Elementary Schools in Somalia	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.sponsor	Bush School of Government and Public Service
local.department	Other	en

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