Oil and Women: A Re-examination
In a seminal article, Ross (2008) reports a negative correlation between oil production and women’s representation in the labour force and politics across countries. This article re-examines these relationships exploiting variations in oil endowments to address endogeneity concerns. We confirm that...
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| author | Mavisakalyan, Astghik Tarverdi, Yashar |
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| description | In a seminal article, Ross (2008) reports a negative correlation between oil production and women’s representation in the labour force and politics across countries. This article re-examines these relationships exploiting variations in oil endowments to address endogeneity concerns. We confirm that oil production causes decline in women’s representation. Additionally we show that, consistent with Dutch disease effects, oil production decreases women’s employment in the traded sector. However, it also leads to an increase in women’s employment in the nontraded sector. We explore some social consequences of oil production and show that it results in women marrying earlier and having more children. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-656572024-05-21T03:30:20Z Oil and Women: A Re-examination Mavisakalyan, Astghik Tarverdi, Yashar In a seminal article, Ross (2008) reports a negative correlation between oil production and women’s representation in the labour force and politics across countries. This article re-examines these relationships exploiting variations in oil endowments to address endogeneity concerns. We confirm that oil production causes decline in women’s representation. Additionally we show that, consistent with Dutch disease effects, oil production decreases women’s employment in the traded sector. However, it also leads to an increase in women’s employment in the nontraded sector. We explore some social consequences of oil production and show that it results in women marrying earlier and having more children. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65657 10.1016/j.eneco.2018.01.015 Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Mavisakalyan, Astghik Tarverdi, Yashar Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title | Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title_full | Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title_fullStr | Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title_short | Oil and Women: A Re-examination |
| title_sort | oil and women: a re-examination |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65657 |