Documents de travail du Département des Affaires économiques de l'OCDE
Documents de travail du Département des affaires économiques de l’OCDE recouvrant toutes les activités de ce département : conjoncture économique, analyse politique et projections ; politique fiscale, dépenses publiques et fiscalité ; questions structurelles dont le vieillissement, la croissance et la productivité, la migration, l’environnement, le capital humain, le logement, les échanges et les investissements, les marchés de l’emploi, la réforme réglementaire, la concurrence, la santé et d’autres thèmes.
- ISSN: 18151973 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151973
Gender Equality and Economic Growth in India
A Quantitative Framework
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.
Keywords: India, gender equality, gender, female labour force participation
JEL:
O41: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity / One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models;
I15: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health and Economic Development;
I25: Health, Education, and Welfare / Education and Research Institutions / Education and Economic Development;
J16: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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