Pregnancy-Related Dropouts and Gender Inequality in Education: a Life-Table Approach and Application to Cameroon.

A study was conducted to investigate how hypothetical reductions in pregnancy-related dropouts would help close the gender gap in educational achievement in Cameroon. Findings revealed that payoffs would be the greatest where societies address gender inequities before puberty and outside the sphere...

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Published in:Demography Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 509 - 529
Main Author: Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait M.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. August 2004
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