| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19888 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19888 |
| Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development? | |
| Matthias Doepke; Michèle Tertilt | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-02-06 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? Not necessarily. We consider a noncooperative model of the household where a gender wage gap leads to endogenous household specialization. As a result, women indeed spend more on children and invest more in human capital. Yet, depending on the nature of the production function, targeting transfers to womenmay be beneficial or harmful to growth. Transfers to women are more likely to be beneficial when human capital, rather than physical capital or land, is the most important factor of production. We provide empirical evidence supportive of our mechanism: In Mexican PROGRESA data, transfers to women lead to an increase in spending on children, but a decline in the savings rate. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19888 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577561 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matthias Doepke,Michèle Tertilt. Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?. 2014. |
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