A Gendered Approach of Economic and Demographic Interactions: Evidence from France

Magali Jaoul-Grammare and Faustine Perrin

Revue d'économie politique, 2017, vol. 127, issue 6, 1083-1108

Abstract: This paper investigates the interaction between economic, demographic and educational variables in post-World War II France. Based on the assumptions of the unified growth theory, we estimate a vector auto-regression for data on fertility, GDP per capita, educational attainment, labor force participation and wages over the period 1962-2008. The methodology employed is based on VAR modeling, using a non-structural approach. Our findings are consistent with the statements of the theoretical literature and emphasize the importance of the role played by gender roles on demographic and economic developments. In particular, the analysis shows that relative wages endogenously adjust to the level of female education and fertility. The investigation of the effect of shocks through the analysis of impulse responses confirms these results.

Keywords: causality; vector Auto-regression; gender; economic Growth; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=REDP_276_1083 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2017-6-page-1083.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
Working Paper: A Gendered Approach of Economic and Demographic Interactions: Evidence from France (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_276_1083

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue d'économie politique from Dalloz
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().