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dc.contributor.authorDoepke, Matthiasen
dc.contributor.authorTertilt, Michèleen
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-09-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:31:29Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:31:29Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2008040163en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35016-
dc.description.abstractThe nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely none) and the rights of other women in the economy. Men prefer other men's wives to have rights because men care about their own daughters and because an expansion of women's rights increases educational investments in children. We show that men may agree to relinquish some of their power once technological change increases the importance of human capital. We corroborate our argument with historical evidence on the expansion of women's rights in England and the United States.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3421en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordWomen's rightsen
dc.subject.keywordpolitical economyen
dc.subject.keywordhuman capitalen
dc.subject.keywordreturn to educationen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic growthen
dc.subject.stwFrauenpolitiken
dc.subject.stwGleichberechtigungen
dc.subject.stwMänneren
dc.subject.stwKinderen
dc.subject.stwFrauenbildungen
dc.subject.stwEigeninteresseen
dc.subject.stwSozialgeschichteen
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleWomen's liberation: what's in it for men?-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn577266306en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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