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The Foundations of Female Empowerment Revisited

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  • Claude Diebolt

    (BETA/CNRS (UMR7522), University of Strasbourg, France)

  • Faustine Perrin

    (BETA/CNRS (UMR7522), University of Strasbourg, France)

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This paper lays the foundations of the analysis of the relationship between gender equality and economic growth. The study of this long-run relationship aims at providing a better understanding of the mechanisms and determinants underpinning the development process which allowed economies to move out of a long period of stagnation into a state of sustainable economic growth. Our scientific objective is to check the validity of the central hypothesis that improving gender equality is a key ingredient of the demographic transition and of the process of socio-economic development.
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  • Claude Diebolt & Faustine Perrin, 2013. "The Foundations of Female Empowerment Revisited," Working Papers 06-13, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC).
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