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Gender and settler labour markets: The marriage bar in colonial Zimbabwe 性别和定居者劳动力市场：殖民地津巴布韦的婚姻障碍
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929611
Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
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引用次数: 1
Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries 为什么我们不应该衡量前工业化国家妇女劳动力的参与程度
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929602
J. Burnette
{"title":"Why we shouldn’t measure women’s labour force participation in pre-industrial countries","authors":"J. Burnette","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1929602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1929602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Labour force participation was designed to measure contemporary labour markets, and does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women’s work, in the past. When we measure labour force participation we ignore production for household use, ignore differences in the intensity of work, and assume a continuity of employment that did not characterize most historical work. Therefore, I suggest that we should not use labour force participation to measure women’s work outside of modern, industrialized societies.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"36 1","pages":"422 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48893991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work 性别平等，增长，以及技术陷阱如何破坏女性的工作
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606
J. Humphries, Benjamin Schneider
{"title":"Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work","authors":"J. Humphries, Benjamin Schneider","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development economists have long studied the relationship between gender equality and economic growth. More recently, economic historians have taken an overdue interest. We sketch the pathways within the development literature that have been hypothesized as linking equality for women to rising incomes, and the reverse channels – from higher incomes to equality. We describe how the European Marriage Pattern literature applies these mechanisms, and we highlight problems with the claimed link between equality and growth. We then explain how a crucial example of technological unemployment for women – the destruction of hand spinning during the British Industrial Revolution – contributed to the emergence of the male breadwinner family. We show how this family structure created household relationships that play into the development pathways, and outline its persistent effects into the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"36 1","pages":"428 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46460632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Restating the case for women’s history in South Africa 重述南非妇女历史
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929615
Amy Rommelspacher
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引用次数: 0
How accurate are the prices in the British colonial Blue Books? 英国殖民地蓝皮书中的价格有多准确？
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1959314
Tom Westland
{"title":"How accurate are the prices in the British colonial Blue Books?","authors":"Tom Westland","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1959314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1959314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the widespread use of the British colonial Blue Books as a statistical source, there has been little investigation of their reliability. This article compares retail price reports in the Blue Books with annual averages constructed from weekly market reports published in four colonial African newspapers. It finds that the Blue Books can sometimes be an unreliable guide to staple prices, with the median error in the order of 25%, though some series are reasonably accurate and some are very inaccurate. Estimating annual averages was complicated by high price volatility and seasonality. In a simulation, the article shows that colonial officials would have usually needed to gather price quotations reasonably frequently in order to be likely to obtain accurate annual averages. A new effort to find non-official sources for prices, especially for staples, and for the early colonial period, would help to refine estimates of living standards and agricultural market dynamics in colonial Africa.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"37 1","pages":"75 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Factor endowments, vent for surplus and involutionary process in rural developing economies 要素禀赋、农村发展中经济盈余和内卷过程的宣泄
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-08-18 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1957825
Montserrat López Jerez
{"title":"Factor endowments, vent for surplus and involutionary process in rural developing economies","authors":"Montserrat López Jerez","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1957825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1957825","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to provide a new analytical framework based on factor endowments to understand growth in rural economies without structural transformation. More concretely, it explores the variation in farmers’ ability to respond to new commercial opportunities. To complement the extensive literature on the economic and institutional effects of factor endowments, this paper revisits two influential yet controversial theories: Mark Elvin’s high-level equilibrium trap for areas with high population densities in a closed arable frontier, and Hla Myint’s vent for surplus for areas with surpluses of land and labour. We argue that these become more operational if reinterpreted by Boserupian land intensification processes. By lifting the neo-classical constraints on factor relationships, this paper contributes by exploring the mechanisms by which factor endowments might preclude the transformation. Understanding the different dynamics of cultivation in relation to land and labour use, technological choices, saving capacity, and potential linkages to industrialization becomes of even greater significance as these areas may be found within the same countries at a given time.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"37 1","pages":"50 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49238172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa. 一夫多妻制的殖民斗争:撒哈拉以南非洲教育扩张的后果。
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-07-23 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946
Bastian Becker
{"title":"The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.","authors":"Bastian Becker","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Christian missions in colonial Africa have contributed significantly to the expansion of formal education and thereby shaped the continent's long-term economic and political development. This paper breaks new ground by showing that this process depended on local demand for education. It is argued that disagreements over norms, and in particular the struggle over polygamy, which resulted from missions' insistence on monogamy in traditionally polygamous areas, lowered African demand for education. Analyses of geocoded data from historical and contemporary sources, covering most of sub-Saharan Africa, show that the struggle is associated with worse educational outcomes today. Effects are not limited to formal attainments but carry over to informal outcomes, in particular literacy. The findings attest to considerable heterogeneity in missionary legacies and suggest that local conditions should be given greater consideration in future studies on the long-term consequences of colonial-era interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"37 1","pages":"27-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39791261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses 殖民时期加纳的教育不平等:欧洲的影响和非洲的反应
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1921571
Prince Young Aboagye
{"title":"Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses","authors":"Prince Young Aboagye","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1921571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1921571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How and why did African households under colonial rule make the decision to educate their children or not, and how did this micro-level decision making affect the diffusion of education in colonial Ghana? This paper addresses these questions and shows that many households were reluctant to enrol their children in school because the costs of colonial education were prohibitive, and the benefits were limited. Unemployment of school leavers was a major social problem throughout the colonial era and returns to education did not justify investments in education. The demand for education was relatively high in areas where the demand for skilled labour was high, and from the late 1930s when there were growing pay-offs to colonial education. Overall, the paper points to the need to examine interactions between supply and demand factors in order to understand variations in human capital accumulation in sub-Saharan Africa.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"36 1","pages":"367 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20780389.2021.1921571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48739458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Precedents of mass migration: Policies, occupations, and the sorting of foreigners in São Paulo, Brazil (1872) 大规模移民的先例:巴西圣保罗的政策、职业和外国人的分类(1872年)
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-05-05 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1911637
Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza
{"title":"Precedents of mass migration: Policies, occupations, and the sorting of foreigners in São Paulo, Brazil (1872)","authors":"Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1911637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1911637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>This paper studies the distribution of foreigners across counties of the province of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1872. The analysis stresses the historical importance of policies that fostered immigration in the nineteenth century by discussing the two main migratory strategies pursued in Brazil by the 1870s, namely the recruitment of foreign bonded labourers to the plantations and of settlers to rural colonies. The empirical approach studies the sorting of foreigners according to the economic, institutional, demographic, and geographic characteristics of the counties. Results show that the number of foreigners in 1872 was positively correlated with the ease of access to a region and with contemporaneous immigrant networks. The number of foreigners in 1872 also correlated negatively with the free, non-white, population, suggesting a degree of substitutability in local labour markets in a period before mass immigration to the region. Finally, the economic structure of the counties influenced the allocation of foreigners. Agricultural employment was associated with less immigrants, while manufacturing and trade-related activities were linked with a larger number of foreigners.</p>","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138503392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The evolution of central bank communication as experienced by the South Africa Reserve Bank 南非储备银行经历的央行沟通演变
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Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1925106
Gideon du Rand, Ruan Erasmus, H. Hollander, Monique Reid, Dawie van Lill
{"title":"The evolution of central bank communication as experienced by the South Africa Reserve Bank","authors":"Gideon du Rand, Ruan Erasmus, H. Hollander, Monique Reid, Dawie van Lill","doi":"10.1080/20780389.2021.1925106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1925106","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Communication has evolved into a cornerstone of central bank design and policy implementation. The South African Reserve Bank has been proactive in this regard as well – most notably with the adoption of inflation targeting in 2001. Using novel text-mining techniques, we evaluate the communication of the SARB, as presented via public speeches and monetary policy committee (MPC) statements, in the context of historical developments from 1994 to 2020. Our analysis focuses on the volume, complexity, scope, and sentiment of communication. We conclude that MPC statements are consistently and narrowly focused on the mandate, whereas speeches capture more detail about how the thinking of SARB policy makers evolves over time. In both cases, communication serves as a channel to reduce uncertainty and build credibility in the public domain.","PeriodicalId":54115,"journal":{"name":"Economic History of Developing Regions","volume":"36 1","pages":"282 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20780389.2021.1925106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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