The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
研究了女性权利与经济发展之间的双向因果关系，发现女性权利增加会促进健康和教育支出，而技术进步则降低了父权制成本，推动男性支持女性权利，进而促进人力资本和人均收入增长。
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children, which should benefit development. The political-economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that technological change increased the costs of patriarchy for men and thus contributed to the expansion of women's rights. Combining these perspectives, we discuss the theory of Doepke & Tertilt (2009) , who find that an increase in the return to human capital induces men to vote for women's rights, which in turn promotes growth in human capital and income per capita.