We examine the pathways by which several dimensions of gender
inequality affect fertility and growth in a model with nonunitary
households.This approach allows for a corner regime with maximum
fertility, the absence of women from the labor market, and gender
inequality in education. Policies to ease countries out of the
corner regime are promoting mothers' survival and curbing infant
mortality, while reducing the social and institutional gender gap
(SIGG) is useless. In the interior regime, parents consider the
impact of their children's education on their future marital
bargaining power, and reducing the SIGG lowers fertility and
fosters growth.