Claude Diebolt

Fellowship 2012

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Claude Diebolt is Directeur de Recherche in economics at CNRS, and Directeur of the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) at the University of Strasbourg. He is Founding President of the French Cliometric Association (AFC), Founding Managing Editor of Cliometrica (Springer Verlag), member of the Board of Trustees of the American Cliometric Society, and of the Governing Board of the Association Française de Sciences Economiques (AFSE). He teaches cliometrics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Strasbourg.

Towards a Cliometric Theory of Unified Growth: The Role of Female Empowerment

Post-doc : Faustine Perrin

This project will address the relation between economic growth and man-woman equality over the whole period of human history. The research objective is to validate or invalidate the hypothesis that the improvement of equality between men and women is related to demographic transition and to the process of past, present and future economic and social development of developed and developing economies. The quantitative and empirical analysis of this relation will be based on a new cliometric approach.

The project aims to produce a quantitative projection of the social sciences on the past, structured by economic theory and mathematical modelling, using statistical and econometric models. The envisioned step change for future research is twofold: building a bridge between theoretical growth models and economic history; and encouraging economists to examine more systematically these theories grounded upon history while nevertheless aiming at finding general laws. This middle road between pure empiricism and abstract theory might open the door to better economic theory, enabling the scientific community and the society in general to interpret current economic issues in the light of the past and to understand more deeply the historical working of socio-economic processes.