Faustine Perrin

Research Activities

The aim of my research is to study the long-term relationship between gender equality and economic growth. To do so, I rely on insights from sociologists, demographers, historians and anthropologists, even if my approach remains that of an economist specialized in cliometrics. As a main area of expertise, I focus on the iconic case of France – in a European comparative perspective – using transversal and longitudinal data, ranging from the 18th century.

Publications

My research is stimulated by a twofold motivation: on the one hand, the conviction that the understanding of comparative economic development today requires a global view of the entire process of development; on the other hand, that the promotion of gender equality and the economic and social empowerment of women is essential to achieve sustainable development.

Papers in Refereed Journals

- "On the Origins of the Demographic Transition: Rethinking the European Marriage Pattern", Cliometrica, 16(3), pp. 431-475, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00237-2.
- “Une lecture cliométrique du développement de l’instruction primaire en France au XIXe siècle”, (with C. Diebolt and M. Jaoul-Grammare), Histoire de l’Éducation, 157, pp. 51-86, 2022.
- “Can the Historical Gender Gap Index Deepen our Understanding of Economic Development?”, Journal of Demographic Economics, 88, pp. 379-417, 2022.
- "Cliometrics of Primary Education in the Long Nineteenth Century France", (with C. Diebolt and M. Jaoul-Grammare), Nordic Journal of Educational History, 8(2), pp. 39-69, 2021.
- “Gender Empowerment as an Enforcer of Individuals’ Choice between Education and Fertility: Evidence from 19th Century France”, (with C. Diebolt and T. Mishra), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 188, pp. 408-438, 2021.
- “Gender Gap in Numeracy and the Role of Marital Status”, Revue d'Économie Politique, 130, pp. 51-76, 2020.
- “How Far Can Economic Incentives Explain the French Fertility and Education Transition?” (with D. de la Croix), European Economic Review, 108, pp. 221-245, 2018.
- “Economic and Demographic Interactions in Post-World War France: A Gendered Approach”, (with M. Jaoul-Grammare), Revue d'Économie Politique, 127(6), 2017.
- “Behind the fertility–education nexus: what triggered the French development process?”, (with C. Diebolt and A.-R.Menard, European Review of Economic History, 21(4), pp.357–392, 2017.
- “Gender equality in human capital and fertility in the European regions in the past”, (with R. Hippe), Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research, 13, pp. 166-179, 2017.
- “Le ‘Paradoxe’ Démographico- Économique”, (with C. Diebolt), Revue d’Économie Financière, 2(122), pp. 103-112, 2016.
- “An Exploration of the Cliometric Relationship Between Gender Equality and Economic Growth”, Economics and Business Review, 1 (1), pp. 34-54, 2015.
- “The Foundations of Female Empowerment Revisited”, (with C. Diebolt), Revue d’Économie Politique, 124 (4), pp. 587-597, 2014.
- “Retour sur les origines de la transition démographique. Une analyse en termes de genre”, Économies et Sociétés, Série « Histoire économique quantitative », AF, n°46, 7/2013, pp. 1185-1211, 2013.
- “From Stagnation to Sustained Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment” (with C. Diebolt), American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 103 (3), pp. 545-549, 2013.
- “Unified Growth Theory: An Insight”, Historical Social Research. An International Journal for the Application of Formal Methods to History, 36 (3), pp. 362-372, 2011.
- “Égalité hommes-femmes et croissance économique française, de long terme”, Économies et Sociétés, Série « Histoire économique quantitative », AF, n°41, 1/2010, pp. 69-103, 2010.

Book Chapters

“A Cliometric Model of Unified Growth. Gender Equality and Family Organization in the Long Run of History” (with C. Diebolt), in: C. Diebolt, S. Carmichael, S. Dilli, A. Rijpma, C. Störmer (Eds.): Cliometrics of the Family: Global Patterns and Their Impact on Diverging Development, Studies in Economic History, Editions Springer, 2019.

“Regional Patterns of Economic Development: France during the Industrialization” (with M. Benaim), in: C. Diebolt, S. Carmichael, S. Dilli, A. Rijpma, C. Störmer (Eds.): Cliometrics of the Family: Global Patterns and Their Impact on Diverging Development, Studies in Economic History, Editions Springer, 2019.

“Growth Theories” (with C. Diebolt), in: C. Diebolt, and M. Haupert, (Eds.): Handbook of Cliometrics, Editions Springer, Berlin, 2015, 2019.

Book - Dissertation

Understanding Demographic Transitions - An Overview of French Historical Statistics (with C. Diebolt), Population Economics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2017.

Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the Long Run. A Cliometric Analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Strasbourg (France), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy), http://www.sudoc.fr/179238469, 2013.

Poster

“The Geography of Industrial Efficiency in mid-19th Century France" (with R. Martino and F. Olland), XVIITH WEHC, Kyoto, 2015.

“Female Empowerment Revisted" , 9th BETA Workshop, Strasbourg, 2013.

Working Papers

“The Historical Gender Gap Index. A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870-1990”, Lund Working Paper, 39 pages, 2021.

Conference Presentation

“French Female Wages and the Long Run of History”, European Historical Economic Society - EHES, Pisa, 2015.

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European Social Science History Conference, Leiden (online), March 24-27.
ASSA Meeting (Allied Social Science Associations), Economic History Association, Chicago (online), January 3-5.

12^th BETA Workshop, Strasbourg (Co-organizer) – Postponed
Lund Seminar in Economic History, Lund, March 25.

11^th BETA Workshop, Strasbourg, May 13-14 (Co-organizer)
Seminar, Bank of Italy, Rome, June 1.
LSE Economic History Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, May 26.
Macrohistory Seminar, Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics, University of Bonn, January 21.

Odense Fresh Meeting, University of Southern Denmark, November 20-21.
History Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, September 11-13.
European Historical Economics Society Conference, Pisa, September 4-5.
XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 3-7.
24th IAFFE Annual Conference – Gender Equality in Challenging Times, Berlin, July 16-18.
64th Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association, Rennes, June 22-24.
German Economic History Conference: Order and chaos – Trends and Structural Breaks in Economic and Social History, Münster, March 11-14.
Women in Changing Labor Markets Workshop, Lund, March 11-13.
HEDG Seminar, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, March 3.

Deep Causes of Economic Development, Utrecht University, December 18-20.
Debunking Austerity: Towards Alternative Economic Policy Scenarios, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, November 17-18.
Economic Seminar, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, September 23.
Journée du BETA 2014, Strasbourg, March 21.

62nd Annual Meeting of AFSE, Invited Session, Aix-en-Provence, June 24-26.
ASSA Meeting (Allied Social Science Associations), American Economic Association, San Diego, January 4-6.
9th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: “New Data, Methods and Theories in Cliometrics”, Poster Session, Strasbourg, May 3-4.

XIV Colloque de l’Association Charles Gide pour l’étude de la pensée économique, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, June 7-9.
Journée Doctorale Augustin Cournot, Strasbourg, June 1.
8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: “Population Cliometrics and Uniﬁed Growth Theory”, Strasbourg, May 11-12.
Pisa FRESH Meeting, Pisa, April 19-20.

ASSA Meeting (Allied Social Science Associations), Cliometric Society, Denver, January 7-9.
9th EHES Conference, Dublin, September 2-3.
Second joint doctoral workshop of University of Strasbourg/BETA and KIT, Strasbourg, November 4.

5th Sound Economic History Workshop, Lund, October 7-8.
Workshop on Human Capital in Economic History. Measurement, Determinants and Implication, Tübingen, August 28-29.