The contribution of female health to economic development

Prettner, Klaus; Kuhny, Michael; Bloom, David E.

The contribution of female health to economic development

dc.contributor.author	Prettner, Klaus	de
dc.contributor.author	Kuhny, Michael	de
dc.contributor.author	Bloom, David E.	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:53:20Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:53:20Z
dc.date.created	2016-09-15
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier.swb	477091318
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6070
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12695
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2016,11
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Economic development	en
dc.subject	Educational transition	en
dc.subject	Female health	en
dc.subject	Fertility transition	en
dc.subject	Quality-quantity trade-off	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Gleichberechtigung	de
dc.subject.gnd	Gender-Medizin	de
dc.subject.gnd	Geschlechterforschung	de
dc.subject.gnd	Wirtschaftsentwicklung	de
dc.title	The contribution of female health to economic development	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Prettner2016, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6070}, author = {Prettner, Klaus and Kuhny, Michael and Bloom, David E. et al.}, title = {The contribution of female health to economic development}, year = {2016}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Prettner, Klaus and Kuhny, Michael and Bloom, David E. et al.
local.export.bibtexKey	Prettner2016
local.export.bibtexType	@techreport
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1269
local.series.issueNumber	2016,11
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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