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Women's rights and financial development

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  • Nabamita Dutta

    (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse)

  • Saibal Kar

    (Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata)

Abstract

Based on studies where institutions augment financial development by guarantying property rights, reducing information asymmetry and bargaining power, our results show that countries that adopt and enhance women's rights experience greater financial development. Employing alternate identification strategies, we find that a standard deviation rise in adoption of women's rights improve financial development approximately between 10 and 20 percentage points.

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  • Nabamita Dutta & Saibal Kar, 2022. "Women's rights and financial development," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 42(3), pages 1257-1265.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-21-00948
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    Keywords

    Financial development; women's rights; institutions.;
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    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics

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