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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okr-10986-100372021-04-23T14:02:48Z Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth Agénor, Pierre-Richard Canuto, Otaviano ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT AGRICULTURE ANTIDISCRIMINATION BENCHMARK CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIET DISCOUNT RATE DIVORCE DYING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FATHERS FEMALE FEMALES FUNCTIONAL FORMS GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER EQUALITY GENDER INEQUALITY GIRL'S HEALTH GROWTH MODELS GROWTH POLICY GROWTH RATE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOME HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME ISOLATION JUSTICE LAWS LITERACY MACROECONOMICS MALES MARGINAL PRODUCT MOTHER MOTHERS OLD AGE OPPORTUNITY COST OPPOSITE SEX OPTIMIZATION OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES SAVINGS SEX TAX REVENUES WAGES WIFE WILL WOMEN'S HEALTH WORKERS 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). 2012-08-13T10:13:56Z 2012-08-13T10:13:56Z 2012-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16445555/measuring-effect-gender-based-policies-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10037 English Economic Premise; No. 85 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research |
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ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT AGRICULTURE ANTIDISCRIMINATION BENCHMARK CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIET DISCOUNT RATE DIVORCE DYING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FATHERS FEMALE FEMALES FUNCTIONAL FORMS GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER EQUALITY GENDER INEQUALITY GIRL'S HEALTH GROWTH MODELS GROWTH POLICY GROWTH RATE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOME HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME ISOLATION JUSTICE LAWS LITERACY MACROECONOMICS MALES MARGINAL PRODUCT MOTHER MOTHERS OLD AGE OPPORTUNITY COST OPPOSITE SEX OPTIMIZATION OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES SAVINGS SEX TAX REVENUES WAGES WIFE WILL WOMEN'S HEALTH WORKERS |
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ADULTHOOD ADVERSE EFFECT AGRICULTURE ANTIDISCRIMINATION BENCHMARK CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIET DISCOUNT RATE DIVORCE DYING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ECONOMICS ELASTICITY EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FATHERS FEMALE FEMALES FUNCTIONAL FORMS GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER EQUALITY GENDER INEQUALITY GIRL'S HEALTH GROWTH MODELS GROWTH POLICY GROWTH RATE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH STATUS HOME HUMAN CAPITAL HUSBAND HUSBANDS INCOME ISOLATION JUSTICE LAWS LITERACY MACROECONOMICS MALES MARGINAL PRODUCT MOTHER MOTHERS OLD AGE OPPORTUNITY COST OPPOSITE SEX OPTIMIZATION OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES SAVINGS SEX TAX REVENUES WAGES WIFE WILL WOMEN'S HEALTH WORKERS Agénor, Pierre-Richard Canuto, Otaviano Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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Economic Premise; No. 85 |
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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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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Agénor, Pierre-Richard Canuto, Otaviano |
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Agénor, Pierre-Richard Canuto, Otaviano |
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Agénor, Pierre-Richard |
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Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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Measuring the Effect of Gender-Based Policies on Economic Growth |
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measuring the effect of gender-based policies on economic growth |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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