Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil
This note studies the long-run impacts of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. After a brief review of gender issues in Brazil, this note describes a framework for quantifying the growth effects of gender-based...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/03/17423390/gender-equality-economic-growth-brazil http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17027 |
| Summary: | This note studies the long-run impacts
of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic
growth in Brazil. After a brief review of gender issues in
Brazil, this note describes a framework for quantifying the
growth effects of gender-based policies in developing
economies. The analysis is based on a computable overlapping
generations (OLG) model that accounts for the impact of
access to infrastructure on women's time allocation, as
well as human capital accumulation, inter- and
intra-generational health externalities, and bargaining
between spouses. The model is calibrated for Brazil and is
used to conduct two experiments, the first involving
improved access to infrastructure, and the second a
reduction in gender bias in the marketplace. The key lesson
of these experiments, is that fostering gender equality,
which may depend significantly on the externalities that
infrastructure creates in terms of women's time
allocation and bargaining power, can have a substantial
impact on long-run growth in Brazil. |
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