Faustine Perrin
Senior lecturer
From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
545-549
Publication/Series
The American Economic Review
Volume
103
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Economic Association, American Economic Association
Topic
- Economics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0002-8282