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From:           	"Robert Cullford" <apz038h#hotmail.com>
To:             	arthurhu@halcyon.com
Subject:        	Interesting fact
Date sent:      	Mon, 29 Nov 1999 02:53:27 PST


     After reading over most of your diversity page I decided to write to 
point out an interesting fact I discovered.  I was reading Robert Barro's 
"Determinants of Economic Growth", and he was discussing the influence of 
education on economic growth.  He said that male secondary and higher levels 
of education is highly correlated with economic growth.  However, the 
secondary education of women showed an insignificant or negative effect on 
subsequent levels of economic growth.  Of all the variables he mentions in 
the book he gives a theoretical explanation, except for this one.  His data 
included over a 100 countries over a 35 to 40 year period.  In your opinion 
what explanation would you give for the evidence that shows the education of 
women does not increase economic growth?


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From:           	"Robert Cullford" 
To:             	arthurhu@halcyon.com
Subject:        	Educating women does not contribute to economic growth?
Date sent:      	Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:32:27 PST


   Thanks for the response.  I've e-mailed several other people and they 
never responded about this issue.(I wonder why?:) Your statement that having 
a full time parent(mother) at home is beneficial to economic growth was my 
first suspicion.  Barro does mention, however,  that educating women leads 
to lower fertility rates, and lower fertility rates lead to higher levels of 
economic growth. Yet even this effect is slight through this indirect 
channel. It would seem cheaper just to offer birth control.  I also 
considered the fact that women usually major in fields that don't contribute 
as much to economic growth(history, language, art etc...)  Maybe a cross 
country study could be done on the amount of time women invest in 
child-rearing and economic growth.  Yes, I'm sure feminists don't want 
anybody to know this, many conservatives I bet would be extremely hesitant 
to mention this in a debate, especially on a college campus.


P.S. Since I am doing research, I was wondering if you had data on the 
percentage of the population that had secondary and higher levels for all 
European and Asian countries.  Or do you know a website where I could find 
such information?  Also give me a response back from what your education 
loop friends say.


Thanks,...


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