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This paper develops a gender-based OLG model of endogenous growth
to analyze the impact of infrastructure on women's time allocation between market
work, raising children, own health care, and home production, and its implications
for education and health outcomes. Women's health status in adulthood, which
affects productivity and wages, depends on their health status in childhood.
Threshold ... read moreeffects in health and life expectancy, associated with access to
infrastructure, may generate multiple development regimes. Whether an increase in
government investment in infrastructure succeeds in shifting the economy to a
high-growth equilibrium depends crucially on how women reallocate their time and
the strength of congestion effects.read less
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- Agénor, P.-R., & Agénor, M. (2013). Infrastructure, women's time allocation, and economic development. Journal of Economics, 113(1), 1-30. doi:10.1007/s00712-013-0358-0.
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