Woman's Role in Economic Development

By Y. Rodgers. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments (2020, background): “Boserup (1970) offers an hypothesis based on differences in women’s agricultural productivity in the two regions.”
Off the Record: Reconstructing Women's Labor Force Participation in the European Past (2012, positive): “In explicating the downward phase of the U, Goldin cited the pioneering work of Ester Boserup (1970), which had argued that the structural changes associated with economic growth reduced women’s participation rates – an idea that had become a standard of development economics.2 In addition, Goldin…”
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015, background): “According to Boserup (1970), dowry systems emerged mainly in societies where women played a lesser role in agriculture.”
Economic development, structural change, and women’s labor force participation: (2013, positive): “Conversely, female labor force participation is below average in South Asia (with the exception of Bangladesh and Nepal), again consistent with the claim of Boserup (1970) of lower female labor force participation in the South Asian plow cultures.”
Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea (2009, positive): “For example, Ester Boserup ( 1970 ) stresses the strong demand on women's time of tasks such as fetching water and wood, food production, and other subsistence activities.”
Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance (2015, neutral): “[21] Boserup, E.”
What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries? (2019, positive): “This may be re-enforced by social stigma and even formal restrictions against female industrial workers or, more generally, formal employment outside of the home of married women (Boserup 1970; Goldin 1995).”
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020, background): “4 The work of Boserup (1970) and Alesina et al. (2013) show that societal norms about women’s work can sometimes have economic origins that persist long after the economic rationale for them is obsolete.”
Fertility and the Plough (2011, positive): “We test the long-standing hypothesis, first developed by Ester Boserup (1970), that different attitudes about gender roles evolved because of differences in the form of agriculture traditionally practiced.”
Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “By the early 1980s the pendulum in development thinking started to swing in the opposite direction.”
Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation and the Demographic Deficit of Women in India (2012, positive): “Earlier research documented that specialization along gender lines gives men an advantage in plough relative to shifting agriculture (Boserup 1970; Bardhan 1974, 1988; Miller 1982; Bosen 1989).”