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dc.contributor.authorCho, Seo-Youngen
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-23-
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-15T10:27:06Z-
dc.date.available2010-11-15T10:27:06Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/41576-
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes empirically whether the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), advocating the multiple dimensions of women's rights, affects the level of women's rights in a country. Measuring commitments to the CEDAW based on reservations by member states, I test whether the Convention enhances women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and (ii) whether the effects are most pronounced in the dimension of women's social rights, a special focus of the Convention. Using panel data for 126 countries during 1981-2007, I do not find statistically significant effects of the CEDAW alone on any dimension of women's rights. However, I do find a positive impact of the CEDAW on women's social rights if combined with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of estimation. In particular, taking into account the potential reverse-causality does not alter the main conclusions.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege) |cGöttingenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|acege Discussion Papers |x93en
dc.subject.jelF53en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelK33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordeffectiveness of international human rights treatiesen
dc.subject.keywordwomen's rightsen
dc.subject.keywordsocial dimensionen
dc.subject.keyworddemocracyen
dc.subject.keywordand reservationsen
dc.subject.stwFrauenpolitiken
dc.subject.stwMenschenrechteen
dc.subject.stwInternationales Abkommenen
dc.subject.stwWirkungsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwFrauenen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechterdiskriminierungen
dc.subject.stwDemokratieen
dc.subject.stwWelten
dc.titleInternational human rights treaty to change social patterns: The convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn622406965en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:cegedp:93en

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