On gender and growth: The role of intergenerational health externalities and women's occupational constraints

Agénor, Pierre‐Richard; Canuto, Otaviano; Silva, Luiz Pereira da

doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2014.05.002

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“…To our knowledge, there are no theoretical studies on the impact of gender inequality in opportunities and outcomes on output and export diversification. Most theoretical studies of the impact of gender inequality on growth have examined the causal channels of fertility and the education of children (Galor and Weil 1996;Lagerlöf 2003;Cavalcanti and Tavares 2016;Doepke and Tertilt 2009;Agénor et al 2014). Hence, the empirical investigation in this study is broadly based on the theoretical occupational choice models of Cuberes and Teignier (2012) and Esteve-Volart (2004), which examine the effects of gender discrimination on aggregate output and economic growth.…”

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We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than for boys, harm diversification by constraining the potential pool of human capital available in an economy. Second, gender gaps in the labor market impede the development of new ideas by decreasing the efficiency of the labor force. Our empirical estimates support these hypotheses, providing evidence that gender-friendly policies could help countries diversify their economies.

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“…Similarly, in studies such as Osang and Sarkar (2008) and Kunze (2014), the positive non-linearity between life expectancy and economic growth is explained in the context of inter-generational human capital investment. In essence, most of these studies, including peripheral models focusing on health-gender equality (Agénor et al 2014;Agénor and Canuto 2015) and health-environment nexus (Mariani et al 2010), model health mainly in the context of children, with the subsequent adult health status being a result of persistence. The feature of health-service quality that determines patients' choice of health care and therefore directly on adult health status has therefore never been considered.…”

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“…In essence, most of these studies, including peripheral models focusing on health-gender equality (Agénor et al. 2014 ; Agénor and Canuto 2015 ) and health-environment nexus (Mariani et al. 2010 ), model health mainly in the context of children, with the subsequent adult health status being a result of persistence.…”

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Growth and welfare in mixed health system financing with physician dual practice in a developing economy: a case of Indonesia

Alpaslan

Lim

Song

2020

Int J Health Econ Manag.

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Based on Indonesia’s hybrid BPJS Kesehatan health system, we analyze for welfare-optimal government financing strategy in an economy with a mixed health system using an endogenous growth framework with physician dual practice. We find the model solution to produce two vastly different regimes in terms of policy implications: a “high” public-sector congestion regime as in the benchmark case of Indonesia, and a “low” public-sector congestion, high capacity regime. In the former, welfare-optimal health financing strategy appears to be promoting private health service. In contrast, in the low-congestion, high capacity regime, a welfare-optimal strategy is to do the opposite of increasing government physician wage at the expense of private health subsidy. These results highlight the importance of developing a benchmarking system that measures the actual degree of congestion faced by the public health service in a developing economy, as it ultimately would influence the optimal health financing strategy to be pursued.

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“…1 What do we then know from the literature about the impact of aid on gender outcomes at a more aggregated level? Foreign aid is partly invested in public goods and services that have been known to particularly benefit women in different ways, such as health spending on maternity care and investments in water and sanitation (Agénor et al, 2014;Seguino, 2008). Whether this aggregates up to a positive effect of foreign aid at the macro level has, however, not been much explored.…”

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The donor footprint and gender gaps

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Bonnier²,

Olofsgård³

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded household surveys with aid projects. This offers a middle way between project evaluations and aggregated cross-country comparisons, measuring an average community effect around projects. We find increased opportunities for women to work outside the household, which could strengthen their bargaining power. However, we find mixed results in terms of the impact on women's control over other key areas of their lives. We argue this is related to differences in what is required for change to happen at the community level.

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On gender and growth: The role of intergenerational health externalities and women's occupational constraints

Cited by 25 publications

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Gender Equality and Economic Diversification

Gender Equality and Economic Diversification

Growth and welfare in mixed health system financing with physician dual practice in a developing economy: a case of Indonesia

The donor footprint and gender gaps

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