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Corinne Boter is an Assistant Professor of Economic Social History at Utrecht University, specializing in gender, living standards, and labor between 1800 and 2000. Her research focuses on female labor force participation, household living standards, and income composition. Currently, she is collaborating with Selin Dilli on a project related to female entrepreneurship in the twentieth century, while also developing a research agenda on technological change and the position of women in the labor market during industrialization. Corinne obtained her PhD in Economic Social History from Wageningen University Research in 2017, with a dissertation titled 'Dutch Divergence? Women’s Work, Structural Change, Household Living Standards in the Netherlands, 1830-1914', which won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize in 2018. Following her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher on an NWO-funded project focused on the dynamics of inclusive finance in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1970, as well as on an ERC-funded project examining family labor and household livelihood in the global cotton manufacturing industry from 1750 to 1990.
Utrecht University • Utrecht
Teaching and researching in Economic Social History with a focus on gender and labor.
Department of Psychology