Gender equality and economic growth in Brazil: A long-run analysis

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Otaviano Canuto

Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015, vol. 43, issue C, 155-172

Abstract: This paper studies the long-run impact of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based, three-period OLG model that accounts for women’s time allocation between market work, child rearing, human capital accumulation, and home production. Bargaining between spouses depends on relative human capital stocks, and thus indirectly on access to infrastructure. The model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted, including investment in infrastructure, a reduction in gender bias in the market place, and a composite pro-growth, pro-gender reform program. The analysis showed that fostering gender equality, which may partly depend on the externalities that infrastructure creates in terms of women’s time allocation and bargaining power, may have a substantial impact on long-run growth in Brazil.

Keywords: Gender equality; Women’s time allocation; Infrastructure; Endogenous growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I25 J16 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2014.10.004

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