Cliometrics of the Family: Editors' Introduction -- A Cliometric Model of Unified Growth: Family Organization and Economic Growth in the Long Run of History -- Marital Fertility and Investment in Children's Education -- A Critical Introduction to Instrumental Variables for Sibship Size based on Twin Births -- Family Organisation and Human Capital Inequalities in Historical Europe: Testing the Association Anew -- Origins and Implications of Family Structure Across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective -- Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses About the Reversal of Fortune in Eurasia -- Political Power from Elite Family Networks in Colonial Buenos Aires -- Regional Patterns of Economic Development: A Typology of French Departments During the Industrialization -- Human Capital Accumulation in France at the Dawn of the XIXth Century: Lessons from the Guizot Inquiry -- Family Formation, Gender and Labour During the First Globalization in Montevideo, Uruguay -- Gendered Welfare Regimes, Work-Family Patterns and Women's Employment -- Mining, Paternalism and the Spread of Education in the Congo Since 1920 -- Child Adoption in Western Europe, 1900-2015.

This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development. Family and households are a fundamental feature of societies and economies. They are found throughout history and are the place where key decisions on fertility, labour force participation, education, consumption are made. This is especially relevant for the position of women. The book gathers key insights from a variety of fields - economics, history, demography, anthropology, biology - to shed light on the relation between family organisation and the long-term process of economic development. .