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Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 18502000

How has agency or the ability to define and act upon ones goals contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the potential of a society to generate economic growth and improve its institutions.

Inspired by Amartya Sens capabilities approach and looking at this in comparison to contemporary economic theory, the collection of chapters tackles the issue of agency from the micro level of household and family formation and asks how this applies to gender at regional and state level. It brings to the fore new empirical data from across the globe to test the links between family systems, female agency, human capital formation, political institutions and economic development and puts these into broader historical context.

It will appeal to scholars researching social policy, gender studies, economic history, development studies and philosophy, as well as anyone with interests in the long-term societal development of the world economy and issues of global inequality.

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University.

Auke Rijpma is an Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral researcher in the Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University.

Jan Kok is Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Gender and Well-Being

Series editors: Christina Borderias and Bernard Harris

The aim of this series is to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and well-being by addressing the following questions:

• How can we compare levels of well-being between women and men?
• Is it possible to develop new indicators that reflect a fuller understanding of the nature of well-being in the twenty-first century?
• How have women and men contributed to the improvement of individual well-being at different times and in different places?
• What role should institutions play in promoting and maintaining well-being?
• In what ways have different social movements contributed to the improvement of well-being over the last 300 years?

The volumes in this series are designed to provide rigorous social-scientific answers to these questions.

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Gender and Well-Being in Europe

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Gender and Well-Being

The Role of Institutions

Edited by Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre, John Eriksen

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe

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ISBN: 978-0-415-79133-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-21241-8 (ebk)

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Contents

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Jan Kok

Sarah Carmichael and Auke Rijpma

Sarah Carmichael, Auke Rijpma and Lotte van der Vleuten

Lotte van der Vleuten, Sarah Carmichael and Selin Dilli

Selin Dilli

Sarah Carmichael and Jan Luiten van Zanden

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Guide

Full colour versions of all map figures are available online at www.cgeh.nl/agency-book-material.

Sarah Carmichael is an Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral researcher in the Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University. Her research interests lie in the exploration of the interaction between informal institutions and development outcomes and the historical measurement of gender inequality. She is particularly intrigued by ways to incorporate qualitative sources into quantitative analysis and the development of measures that capture cultural phenomena.

Selin Dilli is a Post Doctoral research fellow in the Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University. Trained as a sociologist, she focuses on quantitative methods and is interested in evolution of formal and informal institutions, gender inequality and their long-term link with political and socio-economic development outcomes of societies. She is currently involved in the FIRES project (Financial and Institutional Reforms to build and Entrepreneurial Society) where she works on the historical evolution of labour, knowledge and financial institutions in Europe during the twentieth century and their long-term link with entrepreneurial activity.

Jan Kok is Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He specializes in historical demography (e.g. migration, family formation, mortality) approached though individual life courses, as collected, for instance, in the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. He also studies life courses as they differ across regional family systems, and has conducted research in Taiwan and Sri Lanka. His recent work on the eighteenth century thombos in Sri Lanka provides fascinating insights into the position of Sri Lankan women in the colonial period.

Auke Rijpma is an Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral researcher in the Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University. He specializes in quantitative methods, the measurement of well-being, public services, and the link between family organization and economic development. He is currently involved with the CLARIAH project in the Economic and Social History team, run out of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

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