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From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment

Diebolt, Claude and Perrin, Faustine LU (2013) In The American Economic Review 103(3). p.545-549
Abstract
This paper explores the role of gender equality over a long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized countries. Our unified cliometric growth model of female empowerment suggests that changes in gender relations are a key ingredient of economic development. The economy evolves from a Malthusian regime–with slow technological progress, low income and low fertility–to a Modern Growth regime, with high living standards and low fertility. The rise in technological progress, together with improvements in gender equality, generates a positive feedback loop that engages the process of human capital accumulation (economic transition) and triggers the demographic transition.
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103
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545 - 549
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0002-8282
DOI
10.1257/aer.103.3.545
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English
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  title        = {{From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment}},
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