Women’s rights and development

By Raquel Fernández. Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2013

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from India (2020, unknown): “We present a different (although complementary) explanation for this U-shape, based on the fact that women’s legal rights to own and inherit property tend to rise as countries develop (Fernández 2014; Doepke and Tertilt 2009).”
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015, unknown): “Fernández (2014) models a different mechanism through which economic development induces men to support women ’ s rights; in her model, fathers and mothers care equally about children, and the driving forces are rising income and falling fertility rather than increasing returns to education.”
Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century (2011, background): “…period would allow a greater use of microdata and permit one to learn more about the process of cultural diffusion.59 58As the economy changed, so may have the interests of firms (capitalists) and perhaps men in general with respect to having women in the work force (see, e.g., Fernández (2010b).”
Women Empowerment and Economic Development (2012, background): “…what is claimed by some of the more optimistic policy makers, it is, however, not clear that a one-time impulsion of women’s rights will spark a virtuous circle, with women’s empowerment and development mutually reinforcing each other and women eventually being equal partners in richer societies.”
Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications (2013, background): “Short of creating exogenous shocks to determinants of gender inequality or analyzing exogenous variation created by natural experiments, such as the spike in female labor force participation during WWII used by Fernandez et al. (2004), the estimated coefficient of gender inequality in cross-country ”
Do female/male distinctions in language matter? Evidence from gender political quotas (2013, background): “2 ‘Eng_col’, ‘Fren_col’ and ‘Spa_col’ stand for British, French and Spanish colonization, respectively. impact on the adoption of quotas, suggesting that economic forces may increase political access, decreasing the need for quotas (Fernandez, 2009).”
Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate (2016, unknown): “With respect to the theoretical literature, several studies focus on explaining the e ects of economic growth on di erent gender gaps, for example, Galor and Weil (1996) and Ngai (2013). Other authors have focused on the reverse e ect, i.”