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Gender Equality and Economic Growth in India: A Quantitative Framework

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  • Pierre-Richard Agénor

    (University of Manchester)

  • Jan Mares

    (OECD)

  • Piritta Sorsa

    (OECD)

Abstract

This paper studies how public policies, including pro-women interventions, can raise female labour force participation and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second part presents a gender-based OLG model, based on Agénor (2015) and Agénor and Canuto (2015), 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. The model is calibrated and various experiments are conducted, including investment in infrastructure, conditional cash transfers, and a reduction in gender bias in the market place. The analysis shows raising female labour force participation with a package of pro-growth and pro-women policies could boost the growth rate by about 2 percentage points over time.

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  • Pierre-Richard Agénor & Jan Mares & Piritta Sorsa, 2015. "Gender Equality and Economic Growth in India: A Quantitative Framework," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1263, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1263-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jrtpbnt7zf4-en
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    Cited by:

    1. Giscard Assoumou-ella, 2019. "Gender Inequality in Education and per capita GDP: the case of CEMAC Countries," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 39(2), pages 1154-1162.
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    3. Gimelli, Francesco M. & Bos, Joannette J. & Rogers, Briony C., 2018. "Fostering equity and wellbeing through water: A reinterpretation of the goal of securing access," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 1-9.
    4. Khristina Mashtalir & Olha Kapitan & Roman Shai, 2022. "Gender equality as a component of the equality principle in society," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue SI, pages 96-111.
    5. Sapkal Rahul Suresh, 2017. "From Mother to Daughter: Does Equal Inheritance Property Laws Reform Improve Female Labor Supply and Educational Attainments in India?," Asian Journal of Law and Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-36, April.
    6. Otaviano Canuto & Christos Daoulas, 2019. "Natural Wealth and Economic Growth: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa," Research papers & Policy papers on Commodities & Energy 1904, Policy Center for the New South.
    7. Agénor, Pierre-Richard & Agénor, Madina, 2023. "Access to infrastructure and women’s time allocation: Implications for growth and gender equality," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    8. Otaviano Canuto & Hajar Kabbach, 2023. "Gender inequality in the labor market: the case of Morocco," Policy briefs on Economic Trends and Policies 2309, Policy Center for the New South.

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    Keywords

    female labour force participation; gender; gender equality; India;
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    JEL classification:

    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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