1st Edition
Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850–2000 Testing the Sen Hypothesis
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction (Jan Luiten Van Zanden)
Chapter 2. Women’s agency in historical family systems (Jan Kok)
Chapter 3. Measuring agency (Sarah Carmichael and Auke Rijpma)
Chapter 4. Quantity versus Quality: Household Structure, Number of Siblings, and Educational Attainment in the Long Nineteenth Century (Sarah Carmichael, Auke Rijpma and Lotte van der Vleuten)
Chapter 5. The best thermometer: A Long run perspective on Indian gender inequality in British ruled states (Lotte van der Vleuten, Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli)
Chapter 6. The Deep Causes of Economic Development: Family Systems and Female Agency (Selin Dilli)
Chapter 7. Conclusions (Sarah Carmichael and Jan Luiten Van Zanden)
Index
Biography
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 the Radboud University, Nijmegen.
