German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 5

24 May 2024, 17:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

5. Does gender equality in labor participation bring real equality? Evidence from developing and developed countries

Michele Fabiani (University of Macerata)

24/05/2024, 17:00

Poverty and Inequality

Parallel Session

The Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) has a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at least three groups of developing countries, and relatively low initial participation levels, based on a macro- and micro-data comparison. Whereas, in developed countries, both a cross-country comparison and a literature review have shown that the relationship is tendentially equalizing. Based...

67. How do harmful social norms interact? Evidence from the Revised Family Code in Ethiopia

Anne Simon (Leibniz-University Hannover)

24/05/2024, 17:30

Gender Economics

Parallel Session

Abstract:
The prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC) remains high, despite increasing policy efforts to combat this harmful practice. In Ethiopia, 25 million women alive today have been cut and FGC is strongly linked to norms regarding early marriage by serving as a signal for pre-marital virginity. I, therefore, study how a law that raised women’s minimum marriage age marriage from 15...