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 5 May, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Damiano Turchet (Warwick)S2.79Title: Disadvantage and Distorted Beliefs (joint with P Dalton and S Ghosal). Abstract: We develop a dynamic theory of how structural disadvantage shapes outcomes through the interaction of cognitive constraints and psychological determinants of efforts. We relate locus of control, self-efficacy, and grit to perceived returns to effort, and study aspirations in an extension. Individuals differ in exogenous circumstances, such as class, caste, race, gender, or inherited wealth, which affect the payoff or likelihood of success from effort. Beliefs about returns to effort evolve only through effort itself. Disadvantage raises the belief threshold required to justify effort, making disadvantaged individuals more likely to stop trying before learning their true returns. External locus of control, low self-efficacy, and weak grit can therefore emerge endogenously. We distinguish standard traps, which arise even for farsighted agents, from behavioral traps, which arise under partial myopia. Cash transfers, subsidies, and access policies lower effort thresholds; psychological, role-model, and grit interventions sustain beliefs. |
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Tue 12 May, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Johannes Brinkmann (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 19 May, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Desmond Fairall (PGR)S0.08Title to be advised. |
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Tue 26 May, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Lily Shevchenko (PGR)S0.08Title to be advised. |
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Tue 2 Jun, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Devesh Rustagi (Warwick)S0.08Title to be advised. |
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Mon 8 Jun, '26- |
Economic History Seminar - Ferdinand Rauch (St Gallen)S0.18Title to be advised. |
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Tue 9 Jun, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Carole Gao (PGR)S0.08Title to be advised. |
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Tue 16 Jun, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Adam Di Lizia (PGR)S0.09Title to be advised. |
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