Stephanie Seguino
Biographic Data
| ID | 98355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Seguino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Seguino |
| SIGNATURE | SEGUINO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9957-376X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favorable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and global macroeconomic conditions. In this paper, we assess the role of a variety of macro-level policies and structures in influencing trends in women’s access to high-quality jobs for a sample of 15 cou…
Estimating the Role of Social Reproduction in Economic Growth
Do investments in social reproduction, or the time and commodities that it takes to produce and maintain the labor force, actually matter for the rate of economic growth? Using a Kaleckian macroeconomic model that incorporates gender and care provisioning, this article seeks to empirically evaluate this question. With panel data for a set of 121 countries between 1991 and 2015, the article uses principal component analysis to generate estimates o…
Industrial Policy and Gender Inclusivity
The economics of development and structural change highlight the importance of industrialization as a means for countries to move from poverty to higher living standards and well-being. Industrial policy—that is, an articulated path to industrialization and the production of higher valued-added goods and services—is a means to achieve that goal. A key question is how to make industrial policy gender-inclusive. This chapter begins by identifying g…
Inequality and Economic Stratification: Reflections on Bromley, Piketty, and Obeng-Odoom
The rise of economic inequality is a major global problem, one that economists have an important role in explaining and addressing through policy. Despite increased availability of data, our theoretical understanding of the dynamics of inequality, its persistence, and policies to address this problem remain in their infancy. The new subfield of stratification economics focuses on intergroup inequality by race and gender and offers a useful lens t…
Driving While Black and Brown in Vermont: Can Race Data Analysis Contribute to Reform
Many states now require law enforcement to collect race data on traffic stops, but there has been little research on the use of that data to inform public policy or reform efforts at the agency level. This article addresses that lacuna by presenting results from the first statewide analysis of Vermont traffic stop data. Racial threat theory, a subset of stratification theory, would predict that policing in a predominantly white state like Vermont…
Engendering Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Over the past two decades, economists have turned their attention to exploring the role of gender in the macroeconomy. This paper reviews the salient findings of that literature. Research shows that gender gaps in education, health, unpaid labor, employment, and wages have economy-wide consequences and influence the rate of growth. The effects are transmitted via both the supply side of the economy – principally through labor productivity – and t…
The Costs of Exclusion: Gender Job Segregation, Structural Change and the Labour Share of Income
While women's share of employment has risen in many countries over the last two decades, gender job segregation has worsened, with women increasingly excluded from 'good' jobs in the industrial sector. In this article, the determinants of gender job segregation are assessed using panel data for a broad set of developing countries covering the period 1991-2015. The effect of gender job segregation on all workers, via the labour share of income, is…
The Costs of Inequality and the Affordability of Solutions
In his far-reaching book, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, Anthony Atkinson’s message is clear—inequality is neither inevitable nor immutable. Atkinson’s (2015) evidence-based optimism that something
How economies grow: Alice Amsden and the real-world economics of late industrialisation
Alice Amsden developed a theory of late industrialisation and a set of accompanying policy approaches that stand in stark contrast to mainstream growth policies that promote market liberalisation. This article explores Amsden’s arguments on the role of wages in promoting growth in countries seeking to move up the industrial ladder. The differential benefits of promoting the development of privately-owned national firms in contradistinction to the…
Gender Effects of Trade Openness in Sub-Saharan Africa
More than thirty years into the modern era of globalization, scholars are now in a position to evaluate the distributive effects of the policy shifts that have led to greater economic integration. One region of the world for which little robust empirical evidence exists on gendered employment effects is Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To identify whether there is an impact of economic and trade structure on women's relative access to work, this contrib…
From micro-level gender relations to the macro economy and back again
The Handbook illuminates complex facets of the economic and social provisioning process across the globe. The contributors – academics, policy analysts and practitioners from wide-ranging areas of expertise – discuss the methodological approaches to, and analytical tools for, conducting research on the gender dimension of economic life. They also provide analyses of major issues facing both developed and developing countries. Topics explored incl…
Toward Gender Justice: Confronting Stratification and Unequal Power
This paper advances a theory of gender justice, defined as equality of outcomes in three domains: capabilities, livelihoods, and empowerment/agency. A pivotal requirement is that women and men must be equally distributed along axes of well-being, with their respective distributions possessing equal means and dispersions. An understanding of gender stratification lies behind this proposal, whereby males benefit materially from a system of gender-d…
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
Monetary Tightening and the Dynamics of US Race and Gender Stratification
This article explores the race and gender effects of monetary tightening in the US from 1979-2008 using state-level panel data. Results indicate the costs of fighting inflation are unevenly distributed amongst workers, weighing more heavily on black females and black males, followed by white females, and lastly white males. We also find evidence that the relative unemployment costs of monetary tightening for subordinate groups vary with the black…
Macroeconomics, Human Development, and Distribution
Policies designed to pursue an equity-led macroeconomic growth strategy must take into account feedback effects, with distribution itself influencing macroeconomic outcomes. Under the right conditions, a more equitable distribution of income and opportunities in the form of human development can be a stimulus to growth, funding further investments in human development. Developing the policies to create those conditions is the central challenge fo…
Help or Hindrance? Religion’s Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Reply to Schober and Winter-Ebmer
Development and Immigration: Experiences of Non-US Born Black Women
An exploration of inequality at the intersection of race, gender, and nationality offers a means to explore how complex economic and social forces combine to shape women's outcomes in ways that differ from men's. Women's responsibility for care work and other forms of unpaid labor inhibits labor force participation, and in some cases, redounds heavily on children. Those responsibilities, coupled with labor market discrimination against black wome…
The global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications, and policy responses
The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in the widespread destruction of jobs and livelihoods. Among the factors that precipitated the crisis, growing inequality both within and between countries contributed to low levels of aggregate demand and the reliance of low-income households on unsustainable borrowing to maintain living standards. The crisis provides the opportunity to rethink macroeconomic policy, and for feminist eco…
Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth in Developing Countries
An unresolved debate in the development literature concerns the impact of gender equality on economic growth. Previous studies have found that the effect varies, depending on the measure of equality (wages or capabilities). This paper expands that discussion by considering both the short and long run, evaluating the effects of gender equality in two types of economies—semi-industrialized economies (SIEs) and low-income agricultural economies (LIA…
Feminist Economics of Inequality, Development, and Growth
This study examines connections between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes, considering various channels through which gender, growth, and development interact. It upholds the salience not only of equality in opportunities but also equality in outcomes. The contribution argues that inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine the ability to provision and expand capabilities, and it examines the macroeconomic po…
PlusÇa Change?1 evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose that women's control over material resources can increase bargaining power to leverage change in key institutions, prompting a shift to more equitable norms. By extension, policies that promote women's paid employment should serve as a fulcrum for gende…
Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1970-90
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the ratio of females to males in the population are examined. We explore determinants of changes in this ratio, using regression analysis. The results indicat…
Accounting for Gender in Asian Economic Growth
Absent from the important debate on the determinants of rapid Asian growth is the role of gender inequality. This paper argues that gender wage inequality has stimulated growth, with Asian economies that disadvantaged women the most growing the fastest from 1975 to 1990. Low female wages have spurred investment and exports by lowering unit labor costs, providing the foreign exchange to purchase capital and intermediate goods which raise productiv…
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Help or Hindrance? Religion’s Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes
PlusÇa Change?1 evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose that women's control over material resources can increase bargaining power to leverage change in key institutions, prompting a shift to more equitable norms. By extension, policies that promote women's paid employment should serve as a fulcrum for gende…
The global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications, and policy responses
The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in the widespread destruction of jobs and livelihoods. Among the factors that precipitated the crisis, growing inequality both within and between countries contributed to low levels of aggregate demand and the reliance of low-income households on unsustainable borrowing to maintain living standards. The crisis provides the opportunity to rethink macroeconomic policy, and for feminist eco…
Feminist Economics of Inequality, Development, and Growth
This study examines connections between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes, considering various channels through which gender, growth, and development interact. It upholds the salience not only of equality in opportunities but also equality in outcomes. The contribution argues that inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine the ability to provision and expand capabilities, and it examines the macroeconomic po…
Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth in Developing Countries
An unresolved debate in the development literature concerns the impact of gender equality on economic growth. Previous studies have found that the effect varies, depending on the measure of equality (wages or capabilities). This paper expands that discussion by considering both the short and long run, evaluating the effects of gender equality in two types of economies—semi-industrialized economies (SIEs) and low-income agricultural economies (LIA…
Accounting for Gender in Asian Economic Growth
Absent from the important debate on the determinants of rapid Asian growth is the role of gender inequality. This paper argues that gender wage inequality has stimulated growth, with Asian economies that disadvantaged women the most growing the fastest from 1975 to 1990. Low female wages have spurred investment and exports by lowering unit labor costs, providing the foreign exchange to purchase capital and intermediate goods which raise productiv…
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
Engendering Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Over the past two decades, economists have turned their attention to exploring the role of gender in the macroeconomy. This paper reviews the salient findings of that literature. Research shows that gender gaps in education, health, unpaid labor, employment, and wages have economy-wide consequences and influence the rate of growth. The effects are transmitted via both the supply side of the economy – principally through labor productivity – and t…
Working in Coalition: Advocates and Academics Join Forces to Promote Progressive Welfare Policies
This paper reports on the successful policy reform efforts of a Maine coalition of activists and academic researchers. The Parent Survey Follow-Up of 1997 provided empirical research to the state welfare policy debate by documenting the life experiences of low-income families and their efforts to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The sample (n = 112) was drawn from a larger sample of respondents (n = 927) who had participated in a statewide rand…
Estimating the Role of Social Reproduction in Economic Growth
Do investments in social reproduction, or the time and commodities that it takes to produce and maintain the labor force, actually matter for the rate of economic growth? Using a Kaleckian macroeconomic model that incorporates gender and care provisioning, this article seeks to empirically evaluate this question. With panel data for a set of 121 countries between 1991 and 2015, the article uses principal component analysis to generate estimates o…
Gender and cooperative behavior: Economic man rides alone
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames conducted experiments which showed that (virtually all male) economic graduate students tended to free ride significantly more than a mixed populatio…
A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favorable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and global macroeconomic conditions. In this paper, we assess the role of a variety of macro-level policies and structures in influencing trends in women’s access to high-quality jobs for a sample of 15 cou…
The Costs of Exclusion: Gender Job Segregation, Structural Change and the Labour Share of Income
While women's share of employment has risen in many countries over the last two decades, gender job segregation has worsened, with women increasingly excluded from 'good' jobs in the industrial sector. In this article, the determinants of gender job segregation are assessed using panel data for a broad set of developing countries covering the period 1991-2015. The effect of gender job segregation on all workers, via the labour share of income, is…
Monetary Tightening and the Dynamics of US Race and Gender Stratification
This article explores the race and gender effects of monetary tightening in the US from 1979-2008 using state-level panel data. Results indicate the costs of fighting inflation are unevenly distributed amongst workers, weighing more heavily on black females and black males, followed by white females, and lastly white males. We also find evidence that the relative unemployment costs of monetary tightening for subordinate groups vary with the black…
Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1970-90
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the ratio of females to males in the population are examined. We explore determinants of changes in this ratio, using regression analysis. The results indicat…
To Work or Not to Work: Is That the Right Question
This paper applies thematic analysis to survey data obtained from a sample of AFDC recipients to investigate the complexities of single-parent decision-making in low-income households. A basic needs budget is developed to determine the adequacy of women's wages to provide for children's minimal material needs. In surveys, parents indicate their primary goal is the well-being of the children, determined by the adequacy of several types of resource…
Gender Effects of Trade Openness in Sub-Saharan Africa
More than thirty years into the modern era of globalization, scholars are now in a position to evaluate the distributive effects of the policy shifts that have led to greater economic integration. One region of the world for which little robust empirical evidence exists on gendered employment effects is Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To identify whether there is an impact of economic and trade structure on women's relative access to work, this contrib…
Inequality and Economic Stratification: Reflections on Bromley, Piketty, and Obeng-Odoom
The rise of economic inequality is a major global problem, one that economists have an important role in explaining and addressing through policy. Despite increased availability of data, our theoretical understanding of the dynamics of inequality, its persistence, and policies to address this problem remain in their infancy. The new subfield of stratification economics focuses on intergroup inequality by race and gender and offers a useful lens t…
Driving While Black and Brown in Vermont: Can Race Data Analysis Contribute to Reform
Many states now require law enforcement to collect race data on traffic stops, but there has been little research on the use of that data to inform public policy or reform efforts at the agency level. This article addresses that lacuna by presenting results from the first statewide analysis of Vermont traffic stop data. Racial threat theory, a subset of stratification theory, would predict that policing in a predominantly white state like Vermont…
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Reply to Schober and Winter-Ebmer
Macroeconomics, Human Development, and Distribution
Policies designed to pursue an equity-led macroeconomic growth strategy must take into account feedback effects, with distribution itself influencing macroeconomic outcomes. Under the right conditions, a more equitable distribution of income and opportunities in the form of human development can be a stimulus to growth, funding further investments in human development. Developing the policies to create those conditions is the central challenge fo…
The Haitian Coffee Market: A Case Study of Different Approaches to Social Science Research
Using the Haitian coffee industry as an example, this paper illustrates two differing approaches to social science research: one, using a broadly defined approach to economic analysis which considers economic and social relationships as well as institutions in examining the competitiveness of the sector's export market and a second, more limited in scope, which addresses the issue from solely an economic viewpoint. The authors conclude that by br…
Gender and cooperative behavior: Economic man rides alone
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames conducted experiments which showed that (virtually all male) economic graduate students tended to free ride significantly more than a mixed populatio…
Gender wage inequality and export‐led growth in South Korea
This article investigates the relationship between gender, wage inequality, and export-led growth in South Korea. The persistent gender wage gap in Korea's manufacturing sector is found to be linked to women's segregation in the country's major export industries where real wage growth has lagged productivity growth, despite favorable market conditions that might drive up women's wages relative to those of men. The interaction of state- and firm-l…
Gender and Welfare Reform: Redefining the Issues
The parameters of the welfare reform debate of the 1990s have been shaped by neoclassical economic theory, which assumes hedonistic individual agents make a dichotomous choice between labor time and “leisure” time. This characterization has led to punitive reform proposals which inadequately reflect the context in which parents make economic decisions. This paper reports the research component of a collaborative effort amongst grass roots groups …
To Work or Not to Work: Is That the Right Question
This paper applies thematic analysis to survey data obtained from a sample of AFDC recipients to investigate the complexities of single-parent decision-making in low-income households. A basic needs budget is developed to determine the adequacy of women's wages to provide for children's minimal material needs. In surveys, parents indicate their primary goal is the well-being of the children, determined by the adequacy of several types of resource…
Accounting for Gender in Asian Economic Growth
Absent from the important debate on the determinants of rapid Asian growth is the role of gender inequality. This paper argues that gender wage inequality has stimulated growth, with Asian economies that disadvantaged women the most growing the fastest from 1975 to 1990. Low female wages have spurred investment and exports by lowering unit labor costs, providing the foreign exchange to purchase capital and intermediate goods which raise productiv…
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Working in Coalition: Advocates and Academics Join Forces to Promote Progressive Welfare Policies
This paper reports on the successful policy reform efforts of a Maine coalition of activists and academic researchers. The Parent Survey Follow-Up of 1997 provided empirical research to the state welfare policy debate by documenting the life experiences of low-income families and their efforts to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The sample (n = 112) was drawn from a larger sample of respondents (n = 927) who had participated in a statewide rand…
Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1970-90
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the ratio of females to males in the population are examined. We explore determinants of changes in this ratio, using regression analysis. The results indicat…
PlusÇa Change?1 evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose that women's control over material resources can increase bargaining power to leverage change in key institutions, prompting a shift to more equitable norms. By extension, policies that promote women's paid employment should serve as a fulcrum for gende…
Feminist Economics of Inequality, Development, and Growth
This study examines connections between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes, considering various channels through which gender, growth, and development interact. It upholds the salience not only of equality in opportunities but also equality in outcomes. The contribution argues that inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine the ability to provision and expand capabilities, and it examines the macroeconomic po…
The global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications, and policy responses
The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in the widespread destruction of jobs and livelihoods. Among the factors that precipitated the crisis, growing inequality both within and between countries contributed to low levels of aggregate demand and the reliance of low-income households on unsustainable borrowing to maintain living standards. The crisis provides the opportunity to rethink macroeconomic policy, and for feminist eco…
Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth in Developing Countries
An unresolved debate in the development literature concerns the impact of gender equality on economic growth. Previous studies have found that the effect varies, depending on the measure of equality (wages or capabilities). This paper expands that discussion by considering both the short and long run, evaluating the effects of gender equality in two types of economies—semi-industrialized economies (SIEs) and low-income agricultural economies (LIA…
Help or Hindrance? Religion’s Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes
Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Reply to Schober and Winter-Ebmer
Development and Immigration: Experiences of Non-US Born Black Women
An exploration of inequality at the intersection of race, gender, and nationality offers a means to explore how complex economic and social forces combine to shape women's outcomes in ways that differ from men's. Women's responsibility for care work and other forms of unpaid labor inhibits labor force participation, and in some cases, redounds heavily on children. Those responsibilities, coupled with labor market discrimination against black wome…
Monetary Tightening and the Dynamics of US Race and Gender Stratification
This article explores the race and gender effects of monetary tightening in the US from 1979-2008 using state-level panel data. Results indicate the costs of fighting inflation are unevenly distributed amongst workers, weighing more heavily on black females and black males, followed by white females, and lastly white males. We also find evidence that the relative unemployment costs of monetary tightening for subordinate groups vary with the black…
Macroeconomics, Human Development, and Distribution
Policies designed to pursue an equity-led macroeconomic growth strategy must take into account feedback effects, with distribution itself influencing macroeconomic outcomes. Under the right conditions, a more equitable distribution of income and opportunities in the form of human development can be a stimulus to growth, funding further investments in human development. Developing the policies to create those conditions is the central challenge fo…
From micro-level gender relations to the macro economy and back again
The Handbook illuminates complex facets of the economic and social provisioning process across the globe. The contributors – academics, policy analysts and practitioners from wide-ranging areas of expertise – discuss the methodological approaches to, and analytical tools for, conducting research on the gender dimension of economic life. They also provide analyses of major issues facing both developed and developing countries. Topics explored incl…
Toward Gender Justice: Confronting Stratification and Unequal Power
This paper advances a theory of gender justice, defined as equality of outcomes in three domains: capabilities, livelihoods, and empowerment/agency. A pivotal requirement is that women and men must be equally distributed along axes of well-being, with their respective distributions possessing equal means and dispersions. An understanding of gender stratification lies behind this proposal, whereby males benefit materially from a system of gender-d…
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
Gender Effects of Trade Openness in Sub-Saharan Africa
More than thirty years into the modern era of globalization, scholars are now in a position to evaluate the distributive effects of the policy shifts that have led to greater economic integration. One region of the world for which little robust empirical evidence exists on gendered employment effects is Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To identify whether there is an impact of economic and trade structure on women's relative access to work, this contrib…
The Costs of Inequality and the Affordability of Solutions
In his far-reaching book, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, Anthony Atkinson’s message is clear—inequality is neither inevitable nor immutable. Atkinson’s (2015) evidence-based optimism that something
How economies grow: Alice Amsden and the real-world economics of late industrialisation
Alice Amsden developed a theory of late industrialisation and a set of accompanying policy approaches that stand in stark contrast to mainstream growth policies that promote market liberalisation. This article explores Amsden’s arguments on the role of wages in promoting growth in countries seeking to move up the industrial ladder. The differential benefits of promoting the development of privately-owned national firms in contradistinction to the…
Engendering Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Over the past two decades, economists have turned their attention to exploring the role of gender in the macroeconomy. This paper reviews the salient findings of that literature. Research shows that gender gaps in education, health, unpaid labor, employment, and wages have economy-wide consequences and influence the rate of growth. The effects are transmitted via both the supply side of the economy – principally through labor productivity – and t…
Economics (29 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Inequality (14 works) · Labour economics (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 works)