作者：California Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge
摘要：This article evaluates criticisms by Sarah G. Carmichael, Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, and Tine De Moor of our view of the European Marriage Pattern (EMP), and explains why their claims are incorrect. We elaborate our arguments concerning the institutional sources of economic growth, explore the relationship between women's position and the EMP, analyze the two-way links between demographic and economic behavior, and explicate aspects of our empirical analysis that these scholar...
作者：State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) - Oswego
作者：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
作者：Utrecht University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We review different interpretations of the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and explore how they relate to the discussion of the link between the EMP and economic growth. Recently Dennison and Ogilvie have argued that the EMP did not contribute to growth in Early Modern Europe. We argue that the link between the EMP and economic growth is incorrectly conceptualized. Age of marriage is not a good scale for the degree to which countries were characterized by EMP. Rather, the economic effects of t...
作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
