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Eradicating Women-Hurting Customs: What Role for Social Engineering?

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NOOPOOR WP#8 -N°54 - Eradicting Woman Hurting Customs.pdf (900.4Kb)
Date
2018
Dewey
Croissance et développement économiques
Sujet
social engineering; economic growth; gender-biased customs, policy; income distribution
JEL code
O.O5.O55; O.O1.O15; J.J1.J16; I.I3.I32
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829591.003.0015
Book title
Towards Gender Equity in Development
Author
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Beaman, Lori; Anderson, Siwan
Publisher
Oxford university Press
Publisher city
Oxford
Year
11-2018
ISBN
9780198829591
Book URL
10.1093/oso/9780198829591.001.0001
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/18287
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Platteau, Jean-Philippe
39622 Centre de Recherche en Economie du Developpement [CRED]
Camilotti, Giulia
410992 Centre de recherche en économie du développement [CRED]
Auriol, Emmanuelle
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Type
Chapitre d'ouvrage
Item number of pages
43
Abstract (EN)
Since the birth of modern development economics in the period immediately following the Second World War, attention has been mostly directed to the determinants of long-term economic growth performance and, in a subsequent stage, to issues of income distribution and poverty reduction. Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This implies discussing the main possible interaction frameworks leading to anti-women equilibria, and deriving policy implications from the corresponding games. The theoretical arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from available empirical works, thus providing a reasoned survey of the literature. This chapter explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to succeed than more indirect approaches when it comes to suppressing gender-biased customs.

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