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Faustine Perrin . Photo

Faustine Perrin

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Faustine Perrin . Photo

From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment

Author

  • Claude Diebolt
  • Faustine Perrin

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