Abstract
This chapter offers an explanation of the data and the method I used to study educational gender equality in 55 Muslim and non-Muslim countries. It explains why Barro and Lee’s educational data was chosen over those from the World Bank. It also describes the method used to create the Constitution variable that measures countries’ level of religious conservativeness.
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Notes
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I thought of matching countries based on GDP per capita, but I substituted it with the total size of population, because I wanted to avoid comparing rich advanced countries to poor developing countries . This was also because GDP per capita was one of my main independent variables, which I deleted due to the high correlation with urbanization.
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Models that include constitutions have smaller N than models that do not have constitution because of the missing data in the constitution variable.
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For detailed information on inclusion and exclusion of countries, please see Appendix A, Point 1, and Appendix B, Table B.1.
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See Appendix A, Figs. B.1, B.2, B.3, and B.4.
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The tests for the models using the data without imputation are available in Appendix A (Table A.5).
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It is observable that Stata does not seem to show the missing data for Barro and Lee’s dataset, because Stata was capable of forecasting the missing data and connecting the data in Barro and Lee’s database. However, Stata could not do that for the World Bank dataset.
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Fox (2012: 1).
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Norton and Tomal (2009: 963).
- 9.
World Bank Indicator (2014).
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See Table 4.6.
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See Appendix A, Point 4.
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See more details about other variables I tested but that were not statistically significant in Table 4.6.
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The data have 55 countries for 50 years, and each country with each 50 years is considered in one panel.
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Hoechle (2007: 4).
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Hoechle (2007: 5).
- 16.
Ibid.
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Al-Kohlani, S.A. (2018). Research Design and Methodology. In: Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70536-1_3
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