期刊
JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS
卷 75, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2022.103472
关键词
Infrastructure; Women's time allocation; Labor market participation; Economic growth; Bargaining power
类别
Improved access to infrastructure is crucial for increasing women's labor force participation and promoting economic growth in developing countries. However, it is found that increased access may lead to women spending more time on child rearing, thereby weakening the benefits of female labor force participation.
Improved access to infrastructure is commonly viewed as a critical step to increase women's labor force participation and promote economic growth in developing countries. This positive relationship is first established in a basic gender-based, overlapping generations model with col-lective households and congestion costs. The model is then extended to account for endogenous gender bias in the market place and women's bargaining power, as well as fertility choices and rearing time. Numerical experiments, based on a calibrated version of the extended model, show that increased access to infrastructure may induce women to devote more time to child rearing - in line with the model's predictions and some of the empirical evidence - thereby mitigating the increase in time allocated to market work. As a result, it may weaken the benefits of increased female labor force participation in terms of reduced gender bias in the market place, improved women's bargaining power in the family, and higher growth rates in the long run.
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