Replication data for article "The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education"

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Elsayed, Ahmed and Shirshikova, Alina (2023). "The women-empowering effect of higher education", Journal of Development Economics, 103101, ISSN 0304-3878, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103101.

Abstract: We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a channel and show that migration prior to university enrollment age decreased while migration after that age increased as an outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men’s migration for study and women’s migration for early marriage. The paper highlights the importance of increasing access to higher education for positive social and labor outcomes, particularly for women.

Keywords: Higher education; Universities; Empowerment of women; Egypt