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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THAILAND

Inequality Across Societies: Familes, Schools and Persisting Stratification

ISBN: 978-0-76231-061-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-241-2

Publication date: 17 December 2003

Abstract

Within individual countries, the paths towards increasing educational attainment are not always linear and individuals are not equally affected. Differences between boys’ and girls’ educational attainments are a common expression of this inequality as boys are more often favored for continued schooling. We examine the importance of birth cohort, sibship size, migration, and school accessibility for explaining both the gender gap and its narrowing in secondary schooling in one district in Northeast Thailand between 1984 and 1994. Birth cohort is a significant explanation for the narrowing of the gender gap. Migration, sibship size, and remote village location are important explanations for limited secondary education opportunities, especially for girls.

Citation

Curran, S.R., Chung, C.Y., Cadge, W. and Varangrat, A. (2003), "EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THAILAND", Baker, D., Fuller, B., Hannum, E. and Werum, R. (Ed.) Inequality Across Societies: Familes, Schools and Persisting Stratification (Research in the Sociology of Education, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 59-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3539(03)14004-9

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