Arbeitspapier

Gender equity and the escape from poverty

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire to have no more children than fathers and to invest no less in education per child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child quantity-quality preferences of spouses differ substantially. In this case targeted policies to empower women have the potential to constitute a successful development strategy. We demonstrate the robustness of this finding with respect to endogenously evolving bargaining power and division of child-rearing time within the household.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 216

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Thema
female empowerment
intra-household bargaining
fertility transition
education
economic growth

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Prettner, Klaus
Strulik, Holger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
(wo)
Göttingen
(wann)
2014

Handle
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20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Prettner, Klaus
  • Strulik, Holger
  • University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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