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A strictly economic explanation of gender norms: The lasting legacy of the plough

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  • Alessandro Cigno

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We show that the descendants of primeval plough users have an interest in maintaining the gender division of labour which was originally justi.ed on comparative-advantage grounds, even though in a modern economy individual productivity depends on education rather than physical characteristics. The result rests on the argument that the contract enforcement technology developed in response to the availability of the plough serves a purpose also in a modern economy because of a possible hold-up problem in the implementation of a Nash-bargaining equilibrium with domestic division of labour.

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  • Alessandro Cigno, 2020. "A strictly economic explanation of gender norms: The lasting legacy of the plough," CHILD Working Papers Series 74 JEL Classification: C7, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
    • Handle: RePEc:cca:wchild:74
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    Plough; comparative advantage; matching; hold-up problem; migration.;
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