Working paper series
Here you will find a list of all available CGEH Working Papers published since November 2010. The CGEH Working Paper series aims to make the most recent work on a variety of economic and social historical topics by scholars from the Utrecht group of Social and Economic History available to the public. Our series also include invited or submitted contributions from colleagues and friends around the world. Working papers can be downloaded as a PDF document. To access the files use the 'Full Text' link below each separate working paper. Abstracts can be found under the link ‘Abstract’. Scholars who are considering submitting a working paper for the CGEH series should contact CGEH_workingpapers@uu.nl for more information.
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1The Changing Shape of Global Inequality - exploring a new datasetvan Zanden, Baten, Földvari, and van LeeuwenJan 2011
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2African Real Wages in Asian Perspective, 1880-1940Frankema and van WaijenburgJan 2011
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3Markets in pre-industrial societies: storage in Hellenistic Babylonia in the English Mirrorvan Leeuwen, Földvari and PirngruberJan 2011
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4The character of growth before ‘modern economic growth’? The GDP of Holland between 1347 and 1807van Zanden and van LeeuwenMar 2011
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5The Origins of Formal Education in sub-Saharan Africa - Was British Rule More Benign?FrankemaMar 2011
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6The Organisation of Markets as a Key Factor in the Rise of Holland, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries. A Test Case for an Institutional Approachvan Bavel, Dijkman, Kuijpers and ZuijderduijnApr 2011
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7A History With Evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape ColonyFourie and von FintelApr 2011
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8Spending, saving, or investing? Risk management in sixteenth-century Dutch householdsZuijderduijn, and De MoorApr 2011
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9Settler Skills and Colonial DevelopmentFourie, and von FintelMay 2011
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10Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long runJervenJun 2011
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11Small is beautiful. On the efficiency of credit markets in late medieval HollandZuijderduijn, De Moor and van ZandenJun 2011
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12French Revolution or Industrial Revolution? A Note on the Contrasting Experiences of England and France up to 1800Sharp, P. R. and Weisdorf, J.Jul 2011
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13Real wages at the Cape of Good Hope: A long-term perspective, 1652-1912de Zwart, P.Aug 2011
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14The Malthusian Intermezzo - Women’s wages and human capital formation between the Late Middle Ages and the Demographic Transition of the 19th centuryvan ZandenAug 2011
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15Marriage and Power: Age at first marriage and spousal age gap in Lesser Developed CountriesCarmichael, S.Sep 2011
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16The Art of Counting: Reconstructing numeracy in the middle and upper classes on the basis of portraits in the early modern Low CountriesDe Moor, T. and Zuijderduijn, J.Sep 2011
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17Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal PublicationsDi Vaio, G., Waldenström, D. and Weisdorf, J.Sep 2011
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18An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of the Huating-Lou Area, 1823–29Li, BohzongOct 2011
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19When the heart is baked, don't try to knead it: Marriage age and spousal age gap as a measure of female agencyCarmichael, S.G., De Moor, T. and van Zanden, J.L.Dec 2011
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20Between Conquest and Independence: Real Wages and Demographic Change in Spanish America, 1530-1820Arroyo Abad, L., Davies, L. and van Zanden, J.L.Dec 2011
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21The Role of Human Capital in the Process of Economic Development: The Case of England, 1307-1900de Pleijt, AlexandraDec 2011
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22Labour Productivity and human capital in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic, c. 1672-1815van Lottum, J. and van Zanden, J.L.Dec 2011
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23Capital accumulation and growth in Central Europe, 1920-2006van Leeuwen, B. and Földvari, P.Dec 2011
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23Capital accumulation and growth in Central Europe, 1920-2006van Leeuwen, B. and Földvari, P.Dec 2011
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24Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965Frankema, E. and van Waijenburg, M.Dec 2011
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25The Contribution of migration to economic development in Holland and the Netherlands 1510-1900Foldvari, P., van Leeuwen, B. and van Zanden, J.L.Jan 2012
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26The development of inequality and poverty in Indonesia, 1932-1999van Leeuwen, B. and Foldvari, P.Jan 2012
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27An Island Drifting Apart: Why Haiti mires in poverty while the Dominican Republic forges aheadFrankema, E. and Masé, A.Jan 2012
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28From hardship to benefit: A critical review of the nuclear hardship theory in relation to the emergence of the European Marriage PatternBouman, A., Zuijderduijn, J. and De Moor, T.Mar 2012
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29The late-medieval economic decline of ‘old’ monasteries and abbeys in Western Europe: inevitable or avoidable?CurtisApr 2012
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30GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony:The national accounts of a slave-based societyFourie, J and van Zanden, J. L.Jun 2012
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31A Tale of Two Commons: Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Long-Term Development of the Commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 1000-1900Laborda, M. and De Moor, T.Jun 2012
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32Soldiers and booze: The rise and decline of a Roman market economy in north-western EuropeBuringh, E., van Zanden, J.L., and Bosker, M.Jun 2012
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33Where do ideas come from? Book production and patents in a global and temporal perspectivePlopeanu, A., Foldvari, P., van Leeuwen, B. and van Zanden, J.L.Jun 2012
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34Reconsidering the Mediterranean ‘agro-town’ model and escaping a vision of an ‘unchanging’ Italian SouthCurtis, DanAug 2012
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35A dataset on human capital in the former Soviet Union area: Sources, methods, and first resultsDidenko, D., Foldvari, P. and van Leeuwen, B.Aug 2012
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36The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation:The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623Gelderblom, O., de Jong A., and Jonker, J.Aug 2012
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37Picking Winners? The Effect of Birth Order and Migration on Parental Human Capital Investments in Pre-Modern EnglandKlemp, M., Minns, C., Wallis, P. and Weisdorf, J.Jan 2013
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38The Role of Female Agency in Politics: A Global Study, 1850-2000Dilli, S.Jan 2013
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39Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century NetherlandsDeneweth, H., Gelderblom, O. and Jonkers, J.Jan 2013
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40ingle, safe, and sorry? An analysis of the motivations of women to join the early modern beguine movement in the Low CountriesDe Moor, T.Mar 2013
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41Early Capitalism in the Low CountriesGelderblom, O., and Jonker, J.Mar 2013