The institutional framework of Russian serfdom

Dennison, Tracy

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511974946.014

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“…They maintain that the EMP growth (Ogilvie and Edwards 2000;Ogilvie 2003;Dennison 2011a;Dennison and Ogilvie 2014, p. 676), we found no evidence that the (Dennison and Ogilvie 2014, pp. 672-76).…”

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“…672-73, 677). That institutions, such as marriage systems, are embedded in larger institutional frameworks is something we have long emphasized (Dennison 2011a(Dennison , 2011b(Dennison , 2013Ogilvie 2007;Ogilvie and Carus 2014). However, the institutional frameworks in which the EMP was embedded were not ones that invariably facilitated economic growth (Dennison and Ogilvie 2014, pp.…”

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Institutions, Demography, and Economic Growth

Dennison

Ogilvie

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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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 economic growth, we reiterate, are not to be found in the EMP but rather must be sought in the wider framework of nonfamilial institutions.

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Institutions, Demography, and Economic Growth

Dennison

Ogilvie

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…Weaker guilds imposing looser constraints on women's work existed both in eastern Europe (in the absence of the EMP) and in England and the Netherlands (in its presence) (Ogilvie 2003). Village communities that limited female autonomy were strong in both Russia (outside the EMP) and Germany or Bohemia (where the EMP prevailed) (Ogilvie 1997(Ogilvie , 2003(Ogilvie , 2004(Ogilvie , 2010Dennison and Ogilvie 2007;Dennison 2011). Corporative institutions played a central role in constraining women's economic activities, but show no systematic relationship with the EMP, counter to the recent literature.…”

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“…In Sweden, communities with only 10 percent complex households existed alongside others with 25 percent (Egherbladh 1989). European Russia, likewise, manifested diverse marriage patterns and family forms across culturally identical communities (Dennison 2011).…”

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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Dennison¹,

Ogilvie²

2014

J. Econ. Hist.

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This article scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. Multivariate analysis of 4,705 demographic observations, covering women's marriage age, female lifetime celibacy, and household complexity in 39 European countries, shows that the most extreme manifestations of the EMP were associated with economic stagnation rather than growth. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment, adjusting population to economic trends, or sustaining beneficial cultural norms. European economic success was not caused by the EMP and its sources must therefore be sought in other factors.istorical demography has attracted much attention in recent years, as economists have begun to incorporate demographic behavior into theories of long-run growth. Several recent contributions to this literature focus on household formation patterns, arguing that the explanation for western economic success was the European

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“…Market exchange seems also to have played a non-negligible role in the subsistence strategies of the peasantry (Dennison 2011). Landlords' 'instructions' regarding the management and use of their resources represented -in many cases -an explicit, stable, and clear set of rules which, among other regulations, frequently included peasants' access to centralized legal recourse against the landlords' decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%