CAN MORE GENDER EQUALITY LEAD TO HIGHER FERTILITY?

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  • Nils-Peter Lagerlöf York University

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Teoria dos Sistemas, Análise Econômica do Direito, Teoria Econômica

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We set up a two sex overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility. Due to a coordination process across households, parental human capital investment may differ between sons and daughters. In societies with plenty of gender discrimination children are cheap to rear, since women's time is cheap, so they tend to have large families, invest little in human capital in each child, and have stagnant incomes. Equal societies tend to have small families and growing levels of income. However, the relationship between gender equality and fertility among non-growing economies is the exact opposite: those with relatively more gender equality have higher steady-state fertility.

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2013-09-13

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