Corinne Boter is Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History specialized in the field of gender, living standards, and labour in the period 1800-2000. She has published, among other things, on the drivers of female labour force participation, household living standards, and household income composition. She is currently working on female entrepreneurship in the twentieth century together with Selin Dilli (UU). Moreover, she is developing a research agenda on technological change and women’s labour market position during industrialization.  

Corinne obtained her PhD in Economic and Social History at Wageningen University and Research in 2017, with a dissertation entitled Dutch Divergence? Women’s work, structural change, and household living standards in the Netherlands, 1830-1914, which was awarded the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize in 2018. Afterwards, she worked as a post-doc on the NWO-funded project The Dynamics of Inclusive Finance in the Netherlands, 1750-1970  and the ERC-funded project Race to the bottom: Family labour, household livelihood and consumption in the relocation of global cotton manufacturing, ca. 1750-1990.