Colonial history | Economic Research Southern Africa

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June 22, 2023

Call for Application: An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

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Call for Application

June 21, 2023

Call for Application: Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic H...

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Call for Papers

June 21, 2023

Call for Papers: An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Working Paper

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

March 1, 2021

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

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Working Paper

Elías Cisnerosy, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Nunung Nuryartono

July 20, 2020

The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

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Working Paper

Christian Bjørnskov, Martin Rode

July 3, 2020

Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

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Working Paper

Abel Gwaindepi, Johan Fourie

May 16, 2019

The origin of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909

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Policy Brief

Alain P. Bala

April 24, 2018

The measurement of institutions and instability in Democratic Republic of Congo, 1880-2010

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Working Paper

Emmanuel M. Letete, George Agbenyo, Mare Sarr, Wisdom Akpalu

September 8, 2017

Evolution of institutions in Ghana and implications for economic growth

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Policy Brief

Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie

November 9, 2016

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

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Working Paper

Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie

July 12, 2016

Why local context matters: de jure and de facto property rights in colonial South Africa

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Working Paper

Jeanne Cilliers, Johan Fourie

June 22, 2016

Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off

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ERSA

December 1, 2015

What church records can tell us about economic development

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Working Paper

Alfonso Herranz-Loncan, Johan Fourie

August 27, 2015

Growth (and segregation) by rail: How the railways shaped Colonial South Africa

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Working Paper

Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie

May 15, 2015

“Impending ruin” or “remarkable wealth”? The role of private credit markets in a settle...

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie, Roy Havemann

April 2, 2015

The Cape of Perfect Storms: Colonial Africa’s first financial crash, 1788-1793

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Workshop

February 6, 2015

An ERSA Research Workshop: The fiscal history of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Workshop

ERSA

February 4, 2015

An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

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Working Paper

Christie Swanepoel, Johan Fourie

January 26, 2015

When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South ...

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Working Paper

Waldo F. Krugell

September 8, 2014

The spatial persistence of population and wealth during apartheid: comparing the 1911 a...

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Working Paper

Anton D. Lowenberg

August 18, 2014

An economic model of the apartheid state

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ERSA

August 12, 2014

Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic History

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Working Paper

Erik Green, Johan Fourie

March 5, 2014

The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history

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Working Paper

Grietjie Verhoef, John W. M. Mwamba, Lorraine Greyling

January 21, 2014

Savings and economic growth: A historical analysis of the relationship between savings ...

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Working Paper

Justin Visagie

November 28, 2013

Race, gender and growth of the affluent middle class in post-apartheid South Africa

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie

September 9, 2013

The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony

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Workshop

ERSA

September 6, 2013

A country of migrants: Advances in South African economic history

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Working Paper

Stan Du Plessis

March 18, 2013

Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Reinterpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape

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Working Paper

Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin, Jörg Baten

January 15, 2013

Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

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ERSA

January 11, 2013

The economics of apartheid

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Policy Paper

Marna Kearney, Roy Havemann

October 3, 2012

Where you live matters: Urbanisation and labour markets outcomes

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie, Maria Santana-Gallego

September 26, 2012

Ethnic reunion and cultural affinity

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Working Paper

Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie

September 22, 2012

A history with evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

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Working Paper

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

September 22, 2012

A theory of colonial goverance

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Working Paper

Johan Fourie, Willem H. Boshoff

September 20, 2012

Ship traffic and the economy of the Cape Colony: 1652-1793

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ERSA

February 25, 2011

Colonial data and economic history research in South Africa