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| Title: | | Does female empowerment promote economic development?  |
| Authors: | | Doepke, Matthias Tertilt, Michèle |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5637 |
| Abstract: | | Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships. We then assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. |
| Subjects: | | female empowerment gender equality development theory of the household marital bargaining |
| JEL: | | D13 J16 O10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104134490 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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