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Impact of gender inequality on the Republic of Korea's long-term economic growth : an application of the theoretical model of gender inequality and economic growth

Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016

This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth …. The model is calibrated to fit to Korean data. We find that gender equality policies that lower discrimination in the …

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The competitive saving motive : concept, evidence, and implications

Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015

partners. Here are some of the key results of the recent literature: (i) cross-country evidence show that greater gender … unmarried daughters appear uncorrelated with gender imbalances; and (b) savings rates of families in cities tend to rise with …

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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the premarital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males …

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Human capital development

Son, Hyun H. - 2010

This paper has two main objectives. First, it assesses and measures the gaps in the stock of human capital across the world. It presents how effectively different regions are improving their stock of human capital, and how long it will take for developing countries to catch up with the current...

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Public goods access and juvenile sex ratios in rural India : evidence from the 1991 and 2001 village census data

Deolalikar, Anil B.; Hasan, Rana; Somanathan, Rohini - 2009

improving gender balance in cases where it is most needed. …

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Gender differences in remittances behaviour : evidence from Viet Nam

Niimi, Yoko (contributor); Reilly, Barry (contributor) - 2008

"This paper investigates the role of gender in remittance behavior among migrants using data drawn from the 2004 … Vietnam Migration Survey. The gender dimension to remittance behavior is not an issue that has featured strongly in the … heteroscedastic tobit models to decompose the observed gender differences in remittances into treatment and endowment components. The …

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A Darwinian perspective on "exchange rate undervaluation"

Du, Qingyuan; Wei, Shang-jin - 2015

This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange rate (RER). In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus of men) can generate a decline in the RER. The effect can be quantitatively large if the biological...

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Gender and the total work of older workers in Asia

Donehower, Gretchen - 2023

In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people's labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do-unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and...

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