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Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil : A Long-Run Analysis / Pierre-Richard Agenor
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Agenor, Pierre-Richard
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic growth.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Gender and Law.
- Gender equality.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Overlapping generations models.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Public capital.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic growth.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Gender and Law.
- Gender equality.
- Health Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Overlapping generations models.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Public capital.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (41 pages)
- Other Title:
- Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2013
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based, three-period OLG model that accounts for women's time allocation between market work, child rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production. Bargaining between spouses depends on relative human capital stocks, and thus indirectly on access to infrastructure. The model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted, including investment in infrastructure, conditional cash transfers, a reduction in gender bias in the market place, and a composite pro-growth, pro-gender reform program. The analysis showed that fostering gender equality, which may partly depend on the externalities that infrastructure creates in terms of women's time allocation and bargaining power, may have a substantial impact on long-run growth in Brazil.
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