Is Growth Good for Women?
34 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2005
Date Written: January 2005
Abstract
Using cross-country data, we find that attitudes towards women are more progressive as income rises and that the quality and quantity of women's human capital increases with income. Prior to presenting these empirical results, we first demonstrate the importance of these relationships with a simple model that shows how a feedback loop between attitudes towards women, investment in women's human capital, and income affects the dynamic path of the economy. Depending on the nature of the relationship between income and attitudes towards women, we identify the possibility of a gender equity poverty trap.
Keywords: Attitudes, growth, gender equity, human capital
JEL Classification: 011, 040, J16, J24
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