The roots of female emancipation: Initializing role of Cool Water
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The Cool Water condition is a climatic configuration that combines periodically frosty winters with mildly warm summers under the ubiquitous accessibility of fresh water. Historically, it embodied opportunity endowments that weakened fertility pressures, resulting in household formation patterns that empowered women and reduced gender inequality. Reviewing the literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, this paper theorizes and provides evidence for a trajectory that (1) originates in the Cool Water climatic configuration, (2) leads to late female marriages in preindustrial times, and (3) eventually paves the way for various gender-egalitarian patterns of the present.
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Zeitschrift | Journal of Comparative Economics |
| Jahrgang | 51 |
| Ausgabenummer | 1 |
| Seiten (von - bis) | 133-159 |
| Anzahl der Seiten | 27 |
| ISSN | 0147-5967 |
| DOIs | |
| Publikationsstatus | Erschienen - 01.03.2023 |
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We would like to thank Timur Kuran (editor), two anonymous reviewers, Laura Barros, Lisa Höckel, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Susan Steiner, Holger Strulik, Mikołaj Szołtysek, participants at the Gender Governance Link conference in Goettingen, the Quality of Government Institute's Internal Conference in Budapest, and seminars at the Universities of Goettingen and Freiburg for valuable comments, and Florian Klassen and Alexander Stöcker for research assistance. We thank Maria Kravtsova for assistance with Russian Empire's historical data. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Lower Saxony's Ministry for Science and Culture for the project The Gender-Governance Link: Gender Equality and Public Goods Provision under the initiative “Geschlecht–Macht–Wissen: Genderforschung in Niedersachsen”. Alexander was also supported through the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project PERDEM (Performance of Democracy, grant agreement 339571). The views expressed here are ours and do not represent those of the funders.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Timur Kuran (editor), two anonymous reviewers, Laura Barros, Lisa Höckel, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Susan Steiner, Holger Strulik, Mikołaj Szołtysek, participants at the Gender Governance Link conference in Goettingen, the Quality of Government Institute’s Internal Conference in Budapest, and seminars at the Universities of Goettingen and Freiburg for valuable comments, and Florian Klassen and Alexander Stöcker for research assistance. We thank Maria Kravtsova for assistance with Russian Empire’s historical data. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Lower Saxony’s Ministry for Science and Culture for the project The Gender-Governance Link: Gender Equality and Public Goods Provision under the initiative “Geschlecht–Macht–Wissen: Genderforschung in Niedersachsen”. Alexander was also supported through the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project PERDEM (Performance of Democracy, grant agreement 339571 ). The views expressed here are ours and do not represent those of the funders.
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