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

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. ...

Call for Application

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

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Call for Application

Call for Papers: Economic History/Macroeconomic Workshop Jan 2015

Savings, credit and debt in South African history Keynote Speakers:...

Submit paper: 5 December 2014

Call for Papers

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

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

Call for Papers

3rd University of Pretoria-Stellenbosch PhD Workshop

Background and Objective: The Third University of Pretoria-Stellenb...

Submit paper: 1 June 2023

Mamello Nchake, Marisa von Vintel, Jesse Naidoo

Workshop

Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

We estimate that since 1701, South Africa has experienced 163 years...

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

Working Paper

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

The majority of African states continue to be regarded as extractiv...

Johan Fourie, Abel Gwaindepi

Working Paper

Measuring political and economic institutions in Ethiopia: c.1888 –2016

This paper presents the first ever set of indices of political and ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Working Paper

7th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network: Innovation and the African ...

The African Economic History Network, in association with the Labor...

Laboratory for the Economics Africa’s Past, Harvard University’s Centre for African African Studies, ERSA, African Economic History Network

Workshop

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights

Very little income or wage data was systematically recorded on the ...

Kris Inwood, Johan Fourie, Bokang Mpeta

Working Paper

Small-scale farming and food security: the enabling role of cash transfers in South Afr...

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing co...

Louw Pienaar, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

Using a novel dataset of genealogical records, we make the first at...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

Policy Brief

What church records can tell us about economic development

Because colonial sources often lack adequate information about the ...

ERSA

Workshop

An analysis of the accuracy of South Africa's inflation figures since 1922

This paper assesses the accuracy of South African inflation data si...

Jannie Rossouw

Working Paper

The data revolution in African economic history

Big Data can be consequential for the field of history. The surge i...

Johan Fourie

Working Paper

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

The railway played a large part in late nineteenth century and earl...

Johan Fourie, Alfonso Herranz-Loncan

Working Paper

Rising unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa: temporary or persistent?

The fact that South Africa’s high unemployment rate continued to ri...

Rulof P. Burger, Dieter von Fintel

Policy Brief

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

Credit markets develop hand in hand with a market economy. Pre-indu...

Johan Fourie, Christie Swanepoel

Working Paper

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

This paper investigates the causes and consequences of colonial Afr...

Roy Havemann, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

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

The public finances of African governments in the colonial and post...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

ERSA

Workshop

An ERSA Research Workshop: Longitudinal Data in African History

The study of African economic history has reached a tipping point. ...

Submit paper: 4 May 2015

ERSA

Workshop

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

To estimate the long-term, persistent effects of missionary educati...

Johan Fourie, Christie Swanepoel

Working Paper

Economic History/Macroeconomic Workshop Jan 2015

Savings, credit and debt in South African history Keynote Speakers:...

Submit paper: 5 December 2014

Joost Jonkers

Workshop

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

This article examines the spatial distribution of people and wealth...

Waldo F. Krugell

Working Paper

An economic model of the apartheid state

Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South Africa...

Anton D. Lowenberg

Working Paper

The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994

Alan Cobley (1990: 3) has argued that no sustained interest was tak...

Roger Southall

Working Paper

The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994

Alan Cobley (1990: 3) has argued that no sustained interest was tak...

Roger Southall

Working Paper

Training Workshop for Graduate Students: South African Economic History

South African economic history is undergoing a mini-revolution. Ass...

Submit paper: 10 October 2014

ERSA

Workshop

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

Because information about the livelihoods of indigenous groups is o...

Johan Fourie, Erik Green

Working Paper

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

The sub-optimal savings propensity in South Africa the past three d...

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

Working Paper

Climate, geography and African economic history

Africa’s ‘bad’ geographic and environmental features have long been...

ERSA

Workshop

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

This paper examines the development of the middle class in post-apa...

Justin Visagie

Working Paper

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

The digitisation and transcription of rich archival sources and the...

Johan Fourie

Working Paper

A country of migrants: Advances in South African economic history

South Africa is a country of migrants. From the Bantu migration, th...

ERSA

Workshop

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

Governor Ryk Tulbagh promulgated sumptuary laws at the Cape in 1755...

Stan Du Plessis

Working Paper

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

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural...

Jörg Baten, Gareth Austin, Alexander Moradi

Working Paper