| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP7448 |
| DP7448 Globalization and Individual Gains from Trade | |
| Yasusada Murata; Kristian Behrens | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-23 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting interests as husbands versus fathers, ultimately resolving them in favor of the latter. As husbands, men stood to gain from their privileged position in a patriarchal world whereas, as fathers, they were hurt by a system that afforded few rights to their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal systems that were initially more favorable to women would delay them. The theoretical relationship between capital and the relative attractiveness of reform is non-monotonic but growth inevitably leads to reform. I explore the empirical validity of the theoretical predictions by using cross-state variation in the US in the timing of married women obtaining property and earning rights between 1850 and 1920. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Macroeconomics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Development Fertility Legal system Property rights Women's rights |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7448 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536299 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yasusada Murata,Kristian Behrens. DP7448 Globalization and Individual Gains from Trade. 2009. |
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