testing the sen hypothesis
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zanden, Jan Luiten van > (ed.)
- Creator
- Rijpma, Auke > (ed.)
- Creator
- Kok, Jan > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Dilli, Selin
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- WER 5 2019
- Thesaurus
- economie, autonomie, levensloop, leefvormen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book discusses the role of autonomous decision making - female agency in particular - and economic development. The collection of chapters tackles the issue of agency from the micro level of household and family formation: are women and men able to make their own life course choices or are marriages arranged and men granted more autonomy than women? It presents new empirical data worldwide to test the links between family systems, female agency, human capital formation, political institutions and economic development and puts these into broader historical context.