Capital Women - The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment Economic

This book demonstrates that women have been and key to understanding processes of development and explores the importance of greater gender equality for financial markets, religious institutions and human capital formation.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• Acknowledgments


• 1. The broader picture: the global determinants of female agency and economic growth


• 2. The patterns behind change: origins and features of the European Marriage Pattern


• 3. Effects on human capital formation


• 4. Effect on capital market development


• 5. The effect on the labour market: women's wages, human capital formation and fertility


• 6. The 'dark side' of the EMP? Testing the nuclear hardship hypothesis


• 7. The institutional effect: alternatives for family ties, the role of trust and the emergence of the commercial household


• 8. Beguines: living single and safe


• 9. Conclusion: the EMP in Eurasian Perspective


• References


• Index

About the author

Jan Luiten van Zanden is professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University. His research interests focus on the reconstruction and explanation of long-term trajectories in the world economy with the goal of understanding the deep roots of contemporary societal problems.

Tine De Moor is professor of Institutions for Collective Action in historical perspective at Utrecht University. She is closely engaged with translating insights from the study of collectively managed institutions in the past to help organisations working in the present.

Sarah Carmichael is an Assistant Professor in the economic and social history group of Utrecht University. Her research focuses on devising historical measures of gender inequality and exploring how family organization impacts upon the position of women.

Summary

This book demonstrates that women have been and key to understanding processes of development and explores the importance of greater gender equality for financial markets, religious institutions and human capital formation.

Additional text

This book addresses from new angles the old debate on the origins, the characteristics and the consequences of the European Marriage Pattern. It makes a very substantial and timely contribution to our knowledge of preindustrial societies - and it will surely inspire research and solicit debate for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Carmichael, Sarah (Assistant Professor Carmichael, Carmichael Sarah, Tine De Moor, Tine De Moor, Tine De (Professor of Institutions for Collective Action Moor, Tine De Moor Moor, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Jan Luiten Van (Professor of Global Econom Zanden, Jan Luiten van (Professor of Global Economic History Zanden, Zanden Jan Luiten van
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780190847883
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084788-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Economic history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies