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dc.contributor.authorWyndow, Paula
dc.contributor.authorLi, Jianghong
dc.contributor.authorMattes, Eugen
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:13:05Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:13:05Z
dc.date.created2013-08-06T20:00:22Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationWyndow, Paula and Li, Jianghong and Mattes, Eugen. 2013. Female empowerment as a core driver of democratic development: a dynamic panel model from 1980 to 2005. World Development. 52: pp. 34-54.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9511
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.06.004
dc.description.abstract

We investigated the causal effects of female empowerment (female educational attainment, female labor force participation, and total fertility rates) on democratic development for 97 countries from 1980 to 2005. Using Polity IV as an indicator of levels of democracy, our results show that female empowerment was strongly associated with democratic development over this period. The effect of female education increased with lags of 5 and 10 years, suggesting that democracy is more likely to occur in nations with a history of educating girls and a longer experience of the social and economic conditions that have occurred because of this investment.

dc.publisherPergamon
dc.subjectcross-nation
dc.subjecteconomic development
dc.subjectgender theory
dc.subjectgender equality
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectsocial institutions
dc.subjectmodernization theory
dc.titleFemale empowerment as a core driver of democratic development: a dynamic panel model from 1980 to 2005
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume52
dcterms.source.startPage34
dcterms.source.endPage54
dcterms.source.issn0305-750X
dcterms.source.titleWorld Development
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