TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agenor,Pierre-Richard
AU  - Agenor,Pierre-Richard
AU  - Canuto,Otaviano
TI  - Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil: A Long-Run Analysis 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - Economic Theory & Research
KW  - Gender and Law
KW  - Gender equality
KW  - Health Monitoring & Evaluation
KW  - Labor Policies
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Overlapping generations models
KW  - Population Policies
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Public capital
N2  - 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, conditional cash transfers, 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
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6348
ER  -