What Is Driving Gender Equality in Secondary Education? Evidence from 57 Developing Countries, 1970–2010

Table 6

Descriptive statistics, developing countries, 1970–2010.

Variable	Obs	Mean	Std. Dev.	Min	Max
Gender parity	510	0.699	0.285	0.028	1.873
Bureaucratic quality	510	1.431	0.873	−1.125	4.132
GDP per capita (ln)	493	7.386	0.837	4.603	9.447
Average aid over 5 years	510	26.578	52.483	0	490.095
Urbanization	493	0.341	0.171	0.032	0.783
Youth cohort size	510	33.418	4.536	13.896	43.932
Armed conflict intensity (ln)	510	−4.189	5.559	−6.908	11.002
Ethnic fractionalization	478	0.520	0.283	0.005	0.925
Protestant or other majority religion	510	0.457	0.499	0	1
Islam	510	0.320	0.467	0	1
Democracy level	426	0.352	0.331	0	0.980
Population	510	58.868	188.646	0.121	1351.805