A Cliometric Model of Unified Growth: Family Organization and Economic Growth in the Long Run of History

Claude Diebolt; Faustine Perrin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99480-2_2

A Cliometric Model of Unified Growth: Family Organization and Economic Growth in the Long Run of History

Claude Diebolt, Faustine Perrin

University of Strasbourg

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This chapter explores the role of gender equality on the long-run economic
and demographic development path of industrialized countries. It accounts for
changes in fertility, technology and income per capita in the transition from
stagnation to sustained growth. Our uniﬁed cliometric growth model of female
empowerment suggests that changes in gender relations, triggered by
endogenous skill-biased technological progress, induce women to invest in
skilled education and begin a process of human capital accumulation. At the
same time, more time spent by women in education increases the opportunity
cost of having children and reduces fertility. This positive feedback loop
generates both a demographic and an economic transition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cliometrics of the Family
Subtitle of host publication	Studies in Economic History
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	2
Pages	7-31
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-99480-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-99479-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99480-2_2
Publication status	Published - 2019

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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Economic History

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Cliometrics
Economic growth
Gender
Fertility
Human capital

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