Income inequality, fertility and economic development

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03359
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic theory
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Nakamura Hideki 大阪市立大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (00272097)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: economic development / gaps in wages / gaps in education levels

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores how gender gaps disrupt economic development. We consider not only gaps in wages between male ans female, but also gaps in the buden of child-rearing and houseworks between them.
By use of a panel estimation, we examine how the gaps in education levels negatively affect economic development. Furthermore, employing a stochasitc frontier analysis, we show that the gaps in education levels cause the discrepancy from the frontier. Hence, this study suggent that alleviaiting gender gaps can help economic development.

Free Research Field

経済発展