Unlike any other modern recession, the downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has created larger employment losses for women than for men. Based on data from all US recessions since ...
The ‘Great Enrichment’ that Europe experienced after the Industrial Revolution remains a central question in economic history (McCloskey 2016). It is now well established that the Europea...
Europe is in the midst of a demographic crisis. After a phase of high birth rates in the decades after WWII when many families had three or more children, more and more couples nowadays s...
