Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 339-372
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 … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …