From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment
(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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- author
- Diebolt, Claude and Perrin, Faustine LU
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- The American Economic Review
- volume
- 103
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 545 - 549
- publisher
- American Economic Association
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84879087687
- ISSN
- 0002-8282
- DOI
- 10.1257/aer.103.3.545
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 7d39f6c9-bc1c-41fd-8ab9-43fc156d99cc (old id 7989754)
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