publ-mit-podpubl-mit-podPrettner, KlausKuhny, MichaelBloom, David E.2024-04-082024-04-082016-09-152016https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6070We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. We do this through developing and calibrating a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. Investing in female health is therefore a potent lever for promoting development.engEconomic developmentEducational transitionFemale healthFertility transitionQuality-quantity trade-off330GleichberechtigungGender-MedizinGeschlechterforschungWirtschaftsentwicklungWorkingPaper477091318urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12695