Cognitive and Psychosocial Gender Gap Among Children: Evidence from Ethiopia - presentation at EUSOC, 15th International Doctoral Seminar in Social Sciences
Abstract
The study aims to trace the roots of cognitive and non-cognitive gender gap among children in Ethiopia. It is keen to answer what gender gap exists in these skills among boys and girls in the diverse socioeconomic and cultural settings of the country.
The data comes from the Young Lives Project, a longitudinal study tracking the lives of children in four developing countries. The rich list of variables from the data are framed by the bioecological model of Bronfenbrenner that best explains developments of gender inequalities from childhood to adolescent.
The results indicate existence of gender difference between boys and girls cognitive and non-cognitive scores. It is also evident that this difference in achievement scores is heterogeneous in that it differs with different personal characteristics in different processes and contexts at different points in time.