TY  - GEN
T1  - The contribution of female health to economic development
A1  - Bloom,David E.
A1  - Kuhny,Michael
A1  - Prettner,Klaus
Y1  - 2016/09/15
N2  - We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. We do this through developing and calibrating a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. Investing in female health is therefore a potent lever for promoting development.
KW  - Gleichberechtigung
KW  - Gender-Medizin
KW  - Geschlechterforschung
KW  - Wirtschaftsentwicklung
CY  - Hohenheim
PB  - Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
AD  - Garbenstr. 15, 70593 Stuttgart
UR  - http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2016/1269
ER  -