Engines of Liberation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth; Yörükoğlu, Mehmet

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“…This in turn has positive effects on the income of women and therefore promotes female empowerment further. Another channel by which technological change promotes female labor force participation and hence gender equality in the course of economic development is advocated by Greenwood et al (2005): In a social environment in which women disproportionately care for the housework, the invention of washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other household devises frees substantial amounts of female time that can be used to supply formal labor on the labor market, which again has positive repercussions on female empowerment. Finally, Soares and Falcão (2008) show that increasing longevity raises the incentives to invest in human capital with negative repercussions on fertility and hence (under the assumption that women spend more time on child-care) with a negative impact on the wage differential between men and women.…”

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Gender equity and the escape from poverty

Prettner¹,

Strulik²

2016

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract. 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. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayJEL classification: J13, J16, O11, O41.

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Gender equity and the escape from poverty

Prettner¹,

Strulik²

2016

Oxf. Econ. Pap.

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“…They have shown that U.S. women's decisions to participate in the labor force are affected by the labor force participation rate of the country of their or their ancestors' ethnic origin. Other researchers have attributed the unexplained increase in female labor force participation to the relative income concern (Neumark, Postlewaite (1998)) or the development of electronic appliances, which have relieved women from some household chores (Greenwood et al (2005)). …”

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Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply: direct evidence from stated preferences

Kawaguchi

Miyazaki²

2007

J Popul Econ

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We investigate the argument that men who are raised by working mothers develop a preference that is favorable toward working women, and, consequently, are more likely to have working wives. We test this hypothesis using the Japanese General Social Surveys 2000-2003. We directly examine the responses to the opinion survey's questions regarding appropriate gender roles. The estimation results indicate that men raised by full-time working mothers are less likely to support traditional gender roles. Those men are also less likely to believe in the negative impact of a mother's working on her children's development. JEL Classification: J12, J16, J22

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“…In part this is due to improved public infrastructure and household technology, and in part the rising opportunity costs of unpaid work as women's wages and job opportunities increased (Australia. Royal Commission into the Basic Wage 1920; Greenwood et al 2005). However, social reproduction and its basis in the care economy may be drained of resources by competition with the market economy if societal arrangements recognising, protecting and rewarding it are inadequate (Folbre 2002).…”

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Paying for care in Australia’s ‘wage earners’ welfare state’: The case of child endowment

Smith¹

2017

Tax, Social Policy and Gender: Rethinking Equality and Efficiency

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Engines of Liberation

Cited by 325 publications

References 31 publications

Gender equity and the escape from poverty

Gender equity and the escape from poverty

Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply: direct evidence from stated preferences

Paying for care in Australia’s ‘wage earners’ welfare state’: The case of child endowment

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