skip to main content
Language:
Search Limited to: Search Limited to: Resource type Show Results with: Show Results with: Search type Index

Gender Equality and Economic Growth in India: A Quantitative Framework

EISSN: 1815-1973 ;DOI: 10.1787/5jrtpbnt7zf4-en

Full text available

Citations Cited by
  • Title:
    Gender Equality and Economic Growth in India: A Quantitative Framework
  • Author: Piritta Sorsa ; Jan Mares ; Pierre-Richard Agénor
  • Subjects: female labour force participation ; gender ; gender equality ; India
  • Description: This paper studies how public policies, including pro-women interventions, can raise female labour force participation and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based OLG model, based on Agénor (2015) and Agénor and Canuto (2015), that accounts for women’s time allocation between market work, child rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production. Bargaining between spouses depends on relative human capital stocks. The model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted, including investment in infrastructure, conditional cash transfers, and a reduction in gender bias in the market place. The analysis shows raising female labour force participation with a package of pro-growth and pro-women policies could boost the growth rate by about 2 percentage points over time.
  • Publisher: OECD Publishing
  • Creation Date: 2015
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: EISSN: 1815-1973
    DOI: 10.1787/5jrtpbnt7zf4-en
  • Source: ProQuest Central
Back to results list
INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY (84-028) 37 755 057 Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn

Copyright © 2017 INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait