Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth
To this day, policy makers, policy advisers, and economists in development institutions do not have any practical tools to help them to assess the impacts of policies aimed at promoting gender equality and quantify the effect of these policies on g...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16445555/measuring-effect-gender-based-policies-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10037 |
| Summary: | To this day, policy makers, policy
advisers, and economists in development institutions do not
have any practical tools to help them to assess the impacts
of policies aimed at promoting gender equality and quantify
the effect of these policies on growth. Yet, there has been
limited effort in that direction. This note lays out such a
tool, a framework for quantifying the growth effects of
gender-based policies in developing economies, developed
recently in the context of a research project sponsored by
the World Bank. The framework is based on analysis using a
computable overlapping generation's model that accounts
for the impact of access to infrastructure on women's
time allocation, as well as human capital accumulation and
inter- and intergenerational health externalities. The
analysis also presents illustrative gender-based experiments
in a calibrated version for a low-income country (Benin). |
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