Title: Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Authors: Doepke, Matthias and Tertilt, Michèle

Place: Washington, DC

Publisher: World bank

Year: 2011

Journal: Policy research working paper

Volume: 5714

PAGE: --

Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: empowerment, households, economic aspects

Abstract: Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-5714

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