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Gender inequality can be witnessed in the educational sphere affecting national economies, human resource development and the overall quality of life. The project examines this gender gap in education by obtaining data from one hundred and fifty eight different countries to determine the relationship between expected female years of education and gross national income per capita. Other explanatory variables including poverty headcount ratio, life expectancy, literacy rate, infant mortality rate and urban population are used to strengthen the model. It was seen that the expected education levels were positively correlated with GNI per capita, urban population and literacy rate while showing a negative correlation with poverty rates and infant mortality rate (IMR).

Keywords

Education; Gender divide; Development; Literacy

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