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

Claude Diebolt and Faustine Perrin

Chapter Chapter 2 in Cliometrics of the Family, 2019, pp 7-31 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Cliometrics; Economic growth; Gender; Fertility; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 N3 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99480-2_2

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