Working paper series

The Changing Shape of Global Inequality - exploring a new dataset

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van Zanden, Baten, Földvari, and van Leeuwen

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No1_.Vanzandenetal.jan2011_0.pdf (541.08 KB)

African Real Wages in Asian Perspective, 1880-1940

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Frankema and van Waijenburg

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No2_.FrankemavanWaijenburg.jan2011.pdf (837.11 KB)

Markets in pre-industrial societies: storage in Hellenistic Babylonia in the English Mirror

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van Leeuwen, Földvari and Pirngruber

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No3_.vanLeeuwenetal.jan2011_0.pdf (270.51 KB)

The character of growth before ‘modern economic growth’? The GDP of Holland between 1347 and 1807

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van Zanden and van Leeuwen

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No4_.vanZandenvanLeeuwen.mar2011.pdf (1.06 MB)

The Origins of Formal Education in sub-Saharan Africa - Was British Rule More Benign?

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Frankema

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No5_.Frankema.pdf (958.79 KB)

The Organisation of Markets as a Key Factor in the Rise of Holland, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries. A Test Case for an Institutional Approach

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van Bavel, Dijkman, Kuijpers and Zuijderduijn

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No6_.vanBaveletal.March2011.pdf (878.57 KB)

A History With Evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

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Fourie and von Fintel

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No7_.FourievonFintel_0.pdf (476.73 KB)

Spending, saving, or investing? Risk management in sixteenth-century Dutch households

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Zuijderduijn, and De Moor

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No8_.Zuijderduijn&deMoor_0.pdf (630.46 KB)

Settler Skills and Colonial Development

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Fourie, and von Fintel

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No9_.Fourie&vonFintel.pdf (1.54 MB)

Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run

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Jerven

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No10.MortenJerven.pdf (915.47 KB)

Small is beautiful. On the efficiency of credit markets in late medieval Holland

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Zuijderduijn, De Moor and van Zanden

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No11.Zuijderduinet.al_.June2011.pdf (686.7 KB)

French Revolution or Industrial Revolution? A Note on the Contrasting Experiences of England and France up to 1800

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Sharp, P. R. and Weisdorf, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No12.Sharp&Weisdorf.pdf (368.59 KB)

Real wages at the Cape of Good Hope: A long-term perspective, 1652-1912 (see http://tseg.nl/2013-2/ for most recent version)

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de Zwart, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No13.PimdeZwart.pdf (370.93 KB)

The Malthusian Intermezzo - Women’s wages and human capital formation between the Late Middle Ages and the Demographic Transition of the 19th century

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van Zanden

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No14.vanZanden.pdf (101.57 KB)

Marriage and Power: Age at first marriage and spousal age gap in Lesser Developed Countries

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Carmichael, S.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No15.Carmichael.pdf (532.94 KB)

The Art of Counting: Reconstructing numeracy in the middle and upper classes on the basis of portraits in the early modern Low Countries

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De Moor, T. and Zuijderduijn, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No16.Demoor&Zuijderduijn.pdf (940.4 KB)

Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

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Di Vaio, G., Waldenström, D. and Weisdorf, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No17 DiVaio WaldenstromWeisdorf.pdf (294.99 KB)

An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of the Huating-Lou Area, 1823–29

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Li, Bohzong

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No18.BozhongLi.pdf (1.22 MB)

When the heart is baked, don't try to knead it: Marriage age and spousal age gap as a measure of female agency

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Carmichael, S.G., De Moor, T. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No19.Carmichaeletal.pdf (1.7 MB)

Between Conquest and Independence: Real Wages and Demographic Change in Spanish America, 1530-1820

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Arroyo Abad, L., Davies, L. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No20.ArroyoAbadetal.pdf (1.31 MB)

The Role of Human Capital in the Process of Economic Development: The Case of England, 1307-1900

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de Pleijt, Alexandra

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No21.Sandra.de_.Pleijt.pdf (1.38 MB)

Labour Productivity and human capital in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic, c. 1672-1815

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van Lottum, J. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No22.VanLottum&vanZanden.pdf (1.11 MB)

Capital accumulation and growth in Central Europe, 1920-2006

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van Leeuwen, B. and Földvari, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No23.vanLeeuwen&Foldvari.pdf (352.95 KB)

Capital accumulation and growth in Central Europe, 1920-2006

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van Leeuwen, B. and Földvari, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No23.vanLeeuwen&Foldvari.pdf (352.95 KB)

Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965

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Frankema, E. and van Waijenburg, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No24.Frankema&vanWaijenburg2.pdf (1.68 MB)

The Contribution of migration to economic development in Holland and the Netherlands 1510-1900

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Foldvari, P., van Leeuwen, B. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No25.Foldvari.et_.al_.pdf (1.2 MB)

The development of inequality and poverty in Indonesia, 1932-1999

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van Leeuwen, B. and Foldvari, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No26.VanLeeuwen&Foldvari.pdf (1.28 MB)

An Island Drifting Apart: Why Haiti mires in poverty while the Dominican Republic forges ahead

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Frankema, E. and Masé, A.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No27.Frankema&Masé.pdf (1.44 MB)

From hardship to benefit: A critical review of the nuclear hardship theory in relation to the emergence of the European Marriage Pattern

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Bouman, A., Zuijderduijn, J. and De Moor, T.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No28 Bouman et al.pdf (707.19 KB)

The late-medieval economic decline of ‘old’ monasteries and abbeys in Western Europe: inevitable or avoidable?

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Curtis

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No29.Curtis.docx_.pdf (1.06 MB)

GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony:The national accounts of a slave-based society

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Fourie, J and van Zanden, J. L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No30.Fourie&vanZanden.pdf (8.33 MB)

A Tale of Two Commons: Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Long-Term Development of the Commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 1000-1900

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Laborda, M. and De Moor, T.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No31.Laborda&deMoor.pdf (800.43 KB)

Soldiers and booze: The rise and decline of a Roman market economy in north-western Europe

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Buringh, E., van Zanden, J.L., and Bosker, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No32 Buringh vanZanden Bosker.pdf (917.42 KB)

Where do ideas come from? Book production and patents in a global and temporal perspective

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Plopeanu, A., Foldvari, P., van Leeuwen, B. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No33.Plopeanu.et_.al_.pdf (719.44 KB)

Reconsidering the Mediterranean ‘agro-town’ model and escaping a vision of an ‘unchanging’ Italian South

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Curtis, Dan

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No34.DanCurtis.pdf (599.22 KB)

A dataset on human capital in the former Soviet Union area: Sources, methods, and first results

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Didenko, D., Foldvari, P. and van Leeuwen, B.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No35 Didenko et al .pdf (1.1 MB)

The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation:The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623

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Gelderblom, O., de Jong A., and Jonker, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No36 Gelderblom deJongJonker 08 2012.pdf (804.71 KB)

Picking Winners? The Effect of Birth Order and Migration on Parental Human Capital Investments in Pre-Modern England

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Klemp, M., Minns, C., Wallis, P. and Weisdorf, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No37.Klemp_.et_.al_. (1).pdf (1.11 MB)

The Role of Female Agency in Politics: A Global Study, 1850-2000

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Dilli, S.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No38.Dilli (1).pdf (558.98 KB)

Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

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Deneweth, H., Gelderblom, O. and Jonkers, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH WP No39 Deneweth et al .pdf (497.48 KB)

Single, safe, and sorry? An analysis of the motivations of women to join the early modern beguine movement in the Low Countries

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De Moor, T.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.No40.De Moor.pdf (802.87 KB)

Early Capitalism in the Low Countries

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Gelderblom, O., and Jonker, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH.WP_.No41.Gelderblom&Jonker.pdf (473.83 KB)

Real estate and financial markets in England and the Low Countries, 1300-1800

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Bochove, C., Deneweth, H. and Zuijderduijn. J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHwp42_bochove_etal.pdf (1.14 MB)

East of Eden: Polish living standards in a European perspective, ca. 1500-1800

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Malinowski, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHwp43_malinowski.pdf (457.94 KB)

Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland

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Zuijderduijn, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEH44_Zuijderduijn.pdf (617.68 KB)

The standard of living in ancient societies: a comparison between the Han Empire, the Roman Empire and Babylonia

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van Leeuwen, B., van Leeuwen-Li, J., and Pirngruber, R.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP45_vanleeuwenetal_9.pdf (1.52 MB)

Accounting for the ‘Little Divergence’ What drove economic growth in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800?

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de Pleijt, A. and van Zanden, J. L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP46_depleijtvanzanden_0.pdf (1.14 MB)

Quantifying the integration of the Babylonian economy in the Mediterranean world using a new corpus of price data, 400-50 BC.

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van der Spek, R. and van Leeuwen. B.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP47_vanderspekvanleeuwen.pdf (1.26 MB)

Capital formation and economic growth under central planning and transition: a theoretical and empirical analysis, ca. 1920-2008

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Foldvari, P., van Leeuwen, B., and Didenko, D.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP48_foldvarietal.pdf (1.57 MB)

Coins as gauge for growth VOC- doits to probe Java’s deep monetisation, 1700–1800

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Feenstra, A.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP49_feenstra.pdf (1.46 MB)

Low Income Inequality, High Wealth Inequality. The Puzzle of the Rhineland Welfare States

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van Bavel, B. and Frankema, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP50_vanbavelfrankema.pdf (869.25 KB)

Should we call for a doctor? Households, consumption and the development of medical care in the Netherlands, 1650-1900

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Deneweth, H and Wallis, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP51_Deneweth_Wallis.pdf (916.32 KB)

Can women count? Gender and numeracy in nineteenth-century Ireland

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Blum, M., Colvin, C., McAtackney, L. and McLaughlin, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP52_BlumColvinMcAtackneyMcLaughlin.pdf (4.49 MB)

What did retirement cost back then? The evolution of corrody prices in Holland, c. 1500-1800

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Zuijderduijn, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp53_zuijderduijn.pdf (448.29 KB)

Why was the Dutch legacy so poor? Educational development in the Netherlands Indies, 1871-1942

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Frankema, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp54_frankema.pdf (1.14 MB)

Books do not die: the price of information, Human Capital and the Black Death in the long fourteenth century

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Buringh, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp55_buringh.pdf (1.4 MB)

Before she said ‘I do’ The impact of industrialization on unmarried women’s labour force participation 1812-1932

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Boter, C.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp56_boter.pdf (2 MB)

Human Capital Formation from Occupations: The ‘Deskilling Hypothesis’ Revisited

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de Pleijt, A. and Weisdorf, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp57_depleijtweisdorf.pdf (1.4 MB)

Grammar of difference? Labour policies and social norms on work and gender in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1800-1940

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van Nederveen Meerkerk, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP58_vannederveenmeerkerk.pdf (504.18 KB)

A latent democracy measure 1850-2000

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Foldvari, P.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp59_foldvari.pdf (1.37 MB)

A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011

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Meier zu Selhausen, F. and Weisdorf, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP60_meierzuzelhausenweisdorf.pdf (2.15 MB)

Growth under extractive institutions? Latin American per capita GDP in colonial times

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Arroyo Abad, Leticia and van Zanden, Jan Luiten

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP61_arroyoabadvanzanden.pdf (1.65 MB)

Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933

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Zhihong, Shi; Xuyi; Yuping, Ni; van Leeuwen, Bas

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP62_ShiXuyiNiVanLeeuwen.pdf (1.26 MB)

Urbanization in China, ca. 1100–1900

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Xu, Yi; van Leeuwen, Bas; van Zanden, Jan Luiten

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP63XuyiVanLeeuwenVanZanden.pdf (1.89 MB)

An early knowledge economy: the adoption of paper, human capital and economic change in the medieval Islamic Middle East, 700-1300 AD

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Shatzmiller, Maya

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP64Shatzmiller.pdf (1.05 MB)

Breaking the piggy bank What can historical and archaeological sources tell us about late-medieval saving behaviour?

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Zuijderduijn, J. and van Oosten, R.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp65_zuijderduijnvanoosten.pdf (3.49 MB)

The historical determinants of language status in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Katalin Buzasi

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp66_buzasi.pdf (3.55 MB)

Towards an ethnographic understanding of the European Marriage Pattern: Global correlates and links with female status

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Carmichael, S.G. and van Zanden, J.L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp67_carmichaelvanzanden.pdf (3.15 MB)

Better understanding disasters by better using history: Systematically using the historical record as one way to advance research into disasters

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van Bavel, B. and Curtis. D.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp68_vanbavelcurtis.pdf (952.19 KB)

Immovable capital goods in medieval Muslim lands: why water-mills and building cranes went missing

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van Bavel, B. Buringh, E. and Dijkman, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP69_VanBaveletal.pdf (3.32 MB)

Reply to Tracy Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie: The European Marriage pattern and the Little Divergence

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Carmichael, S., de Pleijt, A., van Zanden, J.L. and De Moor, T.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp70_vanzandenetal.pdf (1.21 MB)

Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present

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Austin, G., Frankema, E. and Jerven, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp71_austinetal.pdf (2.76 MB)

Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics

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Rijpma, A. and Carmichael, S.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp72_carmichaelrijpma.pdf (5.01 MB)

Quantity versus Quality: Household structure, number of siblings, and educational attainment in the long nineteenth century

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Carmichael, S.G., Rijpma, A. and van der Vleuten, L.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp73_qqt.pdf (3.54 MB)

Enter the ghost: cashless payments in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1800

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Gelderblom, O. and Jonker, J.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp74_gelderblomjonker.pdf (1.92 MB)

Circumventing credible commitment: Groningen’s default and the Dutch Republic’s federal escape route, 1666-1761

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Feenstra, A

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP75_Feenstra.pdf (2.23 MB)

Climate shocks, cash crops and resilience: Evidence from colonial tropical Africa

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Papaioannou, K.J. and de Haas, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp76_papaioannoudehaas.pdf (1.16 MB)

Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Dollars

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Moatsos, M.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp77_moatsos.pdf (4.95 MB)

What can’t money buy? Wellbeing and GDP since 1820

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Rijpma, A.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp78_rijpma.pdf (1.39 MB)

Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses about the Reversal of Fortune in EurAsia

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de Pleijt, A., van Zanden, J.L. and Carmichael, S.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp79depleijtetal.pdf (809.4 KB)

Apprenticeships and craft guilds in the Netherlands, 1600-1900

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Schalk, R.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/cgehwp80_schalk.pdf (835.36 KB)

Benchmarking the Middle Ages: XV century Tuscany in European Perspective

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van Zanden, J.L. and Felice, E.

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http://cgeh.nl/sites/default/files/WorkingPapers/CGEHWP81_zandenfelice.pdf (421.74 KB)