Farms, Family, Fertility: Dilemmas of the Domestic Economy in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

这是为女性科学家和工程师设立的研究计划资助项目下的一个奖项。这是一个研究国内经济在15世纪意大利托斯卡纳经济发展中的作用的项目。发展理论提出了一个问题，即以家庭为基础的农业生产是否能够支持经济增长，而本研究检验了这样一个假设，即托斯卡纳随后的经济衰退是由向共享耕作（以国内经济为基础的农业生产）的转变造成的。只有历史研究才能让我们看到重大社会经济决策的长期后果，今天发展中世界的许多地区面临着与托斯卡纳早先面临的选择类似的选择。除了研究将取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将实质性地帮助有前途的女性研究人员为更大的项目做准备，从而为加强女性科学家和工程师的国家资源做出贡献。

This is an award under the Research Planning Grant program for women scientists and engineers. It is a project to study the role of the domestic economy in economic development in fifteenth-century Tuscany, Italy. Theories of development raise the question whether family-based agricultural production can support economic growth, and this study examines the hypothesis that a shift to sharecropping (agricultural production based on the domestic economy) was responsible for subsequent economic decline in Tuscany. Only historical research can allow us to see the long-term consequences of major socio-economic decisions, and many areas of the developing world today face choices like those faced earlier by Tuscany. %%% In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a promising ymung researcher to prepare for a larger project, thereby contributing to the strengthening of the national resource of women scientists and engineers.