The roots of female emancipation: Initializing role of Cool Water
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In: Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 51, No. 1, 01.03.2023, p. 133-159.
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T1 - The roots of female emancipation
T2 - Initializing role of Cool Water
AU - Santos Silva, Manuel
AU - Alexander, Amy C.
AU - Klasen, Stephan
AU - Welzel, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Association for Comparative Economic Studies
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Climate
KW - Cool Water
KW - Gender equality
KW - Historic drivers
KW - Household formation
KW - Marriage
KW - Politics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jce.2022.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jce.2022.11.001
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85143530096
VL - 51
SP - 133
EP - 159
JO - Journal of Comparative Economics
JF - Journal of Comparative Economics
SN - 0147-5967
IS - 1
ER -