Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil : A Long-run Analysis
This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based, three-period OLG mo...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17498161/gender-equality-economic-growth-brazil-long-run-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13174 |
| Summary: | This paper studies the long-run impact
of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic
growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of
gender issues in the country. The second part presents a
gender-based, three-period OLG model that accounts for
women's time allocation between market work, child
rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production.
Bargaining between spouses depends on relative human capital
stocks, and thus indirectly on access to infrastructure. The
model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted,
including investment in infrastructure, conditional cash
transfers, a reduction in gender bias in the market place,
and a composite pro-growth, pro-gender reform program. The
analysis showed that fostering gender equality, which may
partly depend on the externalities that infrastructure
creates in terms of women's time allocation and
bargaining power, may have a substantial impact on long-run
growth in Brazil. |
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