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Contributor Name: Johan Fourie

Johan Fourie is a professor of Economics and History at Stellenbosch University and his research is aimed at investigating the long-run, structural changes in societies and the factors that cause growth. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economic History at Utrecht University.

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Johan Fourie
The 1918 Influenza
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Johan Fourie, Jonathan Jayes
Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa
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Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, Johan Fourie
Missing boys: Explaining South Africa’s unbalanced sex ratio, 1894-2011
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Abel Gwaindepi, Johan Fourie
The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909
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Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood
Black living standards in South Africa before democracy
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Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie
Why local context matters: de jure and de facto property rights in colonial South Africa
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Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood
Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights
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Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie
Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off
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Jaume Rosello-Nadal, Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
The effects of terrorism, crime and corruption on tourist arrivals
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Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie
Why local context matters: de jure and de facto property rights in colonial South Africa
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Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie
Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off
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Jaume Rosello-Nadal, Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
The effects of terrorism, crime and corruption on tourism
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Johan Fourie
The data revolution in African economic history
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Alfonso Herranz-Loncan, Johan Fourie
Growth (and segregation) by rail: How the railways shaped Colonial South Africa
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Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie
“Impending ruin” or “remarkable wealth”? The role of private credit markets in a settle...
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Johan Fourie, Roy Havemann
The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793
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Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
How the ‘Hand of Henry’ Benefited the South African Economy
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Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie
When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South ...
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Erik Green, Johan Fourie
The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history
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Johan Fourie
The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony
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Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
Ethnic reunion and cultural affinity
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Johan Fourie, Robert Ross, Russel Viljoen
Literacy at South African Mission Stations
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Johan Fourie, Jörg Baten
Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century
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Johan Fourie
The wealth of the Cape Colony: Measurements from probate inventories
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Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
The Determinants of African Tourism
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Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie
Settler skills and colonial development
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Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie
A history with evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony
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Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego
The impact of mega-events on tourist arrivals
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Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie
The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, preindustrial society: The case of the C...
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Johan Fourie, Willem H. Boshoff
Ship traffic and the economy of the Cape Colony: 1652-1793
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