Development and History
Development and Economic History
Members of the Development and Economic History Research Group combine archival data, lab-in-the-field experiments, randomized controlled trials, text analysis, survey and secondary data along with theoretical tools to study issues in development and economic history. Faculty and students work in the field in South Asia, China and Africa as well as doing archival work in libraries across Europe and Asia.
Almost all faculty are members of CAGE in the economics department and some are also members of Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development (WICID). There is a regular weekly external seminar, two weekly internal workshops, and high quality research students. We also organise international conferences on campus, or in Venice.
Our activities
Development and Economic History Research Group Workshop/Seminar
Monday: 1.00-2.00pm
For faculty and PhD students at Warwick and other top-level academic institutions across the world. For a detailed scheduled of speakers please follow the link below.
Organisers: Bishnupriya Gupta and Claudia Rei
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Development and Economic History Research Group are:
Research Students
Events
Tue 4 Nov, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Yang Zhong (Warwick)S2.79Title: Working under Distractions Abstract: Distractions are pervasive in today’s workplaces, from noisy open-plan offices to digital interruptions. Using an incentivized laboratory experiment, I study the effects of distractions on performance and well-being, elicit willingness to pay to avoid distractions, and validate questionnaire items on resilience in working under distractions. I then incorporate these validated items in a representative Dutch survey panel. I obtain four main results. First, despite having little impact on performance in the lab, distractions are detrimental to individuals' self-reported well-being while working. Second, many individuals are willing to pay to eliminate distractions, and this willingness to pay is negatively correlated with the change in well-being. Third, individual heterogeneity in the impact of distractions on well-being can be captured by questionnaire items. Fourth, resilience to distractions strongly predicts income and job satisfaction in the representative survey data, even conditional on education, sector, and other personality traits. |
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Mon 10 Nov, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - David de la Croix (Louvain)S2.79 |
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Tue 11 Nov, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Peter LambertS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 12 Nov, '25- |
AMES Workshop - Menna Bishop (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 18 Nov, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Juliana Cunha Carneiro PintoS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 25 Nov, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Ao WangS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 26 Nov, '25- |
AMES Workshop - Sebanti Mukherjee (PGR) and Yanjun Gao (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 2 Dec, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Sonia BhalotraS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 3 Dec, '25- |
AMES Workshop - Adam Di Lizia (PGR) and Malavika Mani (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 8 Dec, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - Shari Eli (Toronto)S2.79Title: The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families: New Estimates using Larger Samples and New Methods (with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Joseph Ferrie and Adriana Lleras-Muney). |
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Tue 9 Dec, '25- |
CWIP Workshop - Amira ElasraS2.79Title to be advised. |
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