The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of discrimination against women in social … life choices. As underlying drivers of gender inequalities, discriminatory social institutions perpetuate gender gaps in …

gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …