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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278429
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that …Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282336
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that …Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403388
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924603
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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018
What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931742
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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
designed to capture the population’s desire for better governance. Using data from a tailored household survey, we examine the … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466010