Project pages

Research at the Centre is organized in a number of projects covering different parts of the world and various time periods. Some of these projects are externally funded and/or the result of cooperation with scholars from outside Utrecht University. The current projects are listed below:

• The Costs and Benefits of Microfinance

• Agency, Gender, and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000

• Indonesian Economic History

• Global Historical Bibliometrics

• Economic Growth and Stagnation in the Pre-Industrial Era: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries, 600-1700

• Data Infrastructures for the Study of guilds and other forms of collective action

• The Quantitave History of China ca.1368-1949

• "United We Stand". The dynamics and consequences of institutions for collective action in pre-industrial Europe

• Reconstruction National Accounts of Holland 

• Ugandan Marriage Register Research

In the menu to the left you can find the projects for which there are more elaborate descriptions and datasets available