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DOI	10.1111/ehr.13105
	Beyond the male breadwinner: Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850
	Horrell, Sara; Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob
通讯作者	Weisdorf, J (corresponding author), Sapienza Univ Rome, CEPR, CAGE, Rome, Italy.
来源期刊	ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
ISSN	0013-0117
EISSN	1468-0289
出版年	2021-08
英文摘要	This article provides a novel framework within which to evaluate real household incomes of predominantly rural working families of various sizes and structures in England in the years 1260-1850. We reject ahistorical assumptions about complete reliance on men's wages and male breadwinning, moving closer to reality by including women and children's contributions to family incomes. Our empirical strategy benefits from recent estimates of men's annual earnings, so avoiding the need to gross up day rates using problematic assumptions about days worked, and from new data on women and children's wages and labour inputs. A family life-cycle approach which accommodates consumption smoothing through saving adds further breadth and realism. Moreover, the analysis embraces two historically common but often overlooked family types alternative to the traditional male-breadwinner model: one where the husband is missing having died or deserted, and one where the husband is present but unwilling or unable to find work. Our framework suggests living standards varied widely by family structure and dependency ratio. Incorporating detailed demographic data available for 1560 onward suggests that small and intact families enjoyed high and rising living standards after 1700, while large or disrupted families depended on child labour and poor relief until c. 1830. A broader perspective on family structures informs understanding of the chronology and nature of poverty and coping strategies.
英文关键词	child labour consumption smoothing costs-of-living dependency ratio life cycle living standards male breadwinner families poor relief prices wages
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000690867600001
WOS关键词	FEMALE DAY-LABORERS ; CHILD LABOR ; INDUSTRIAL-REVOLUTION ; SOCIAL-STATUS ; POOR RELIEF ; REAL WAGES ; ENGLAND ; ECONOMY ; WELFARE ; PARTICIPATION
WOS类目	Economics ; History ; History Of Social Sciences
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; History ; Social Sciences - Other Topics
来源机构	University of London ; University of Oxford
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/367570
作者单位	[Horrell, Sara; Humphries, Jane] London Sch Econ, London, England; [Humphries, Jane] All Souls Coll, Oxford, England; [Weisdorf, Jacob] Sapienza Univ Rome, CEPR, CAGE, Rome, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Horrell, Sara,Humphries, Jane,Weisdorf, Jacob. Beyond the male breadwinner: Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850[J]. University of London, University of Oxford,2021.
APA	Horrell, Sara,Humphries, Jane,&Weisdorf, Jacob.(2021).Beyond the male breadwinner: Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850.ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW.
MLA	Horrell, Sara,et al."Beyond the male breadwinner: Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850".ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW (2021).