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:
Bishnupriya Gupta
Co-ordinator
Anant Sudarshan
Deputy Co-ordinator
Research Students
Events
CWIP Workshop - Clement Imbert
Title - Urban Public Works: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (with Simon Franklin)
Abstract: Public works are common anti-poverty policies around the developing world. They generate employment and build public infrastructure, and have direct effects on program beneficiaries as well as equilibrium effects, which affect the entire population. This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of an urban public works program, Ethiopia's PNSP. We take advantage of its random roll-out across neighborhoods of Addis-Ababa to show that the program increased local wages and improved local amenities. We then use unique data on city-wide commuting flows to calibrate a spatial equilibrium model and compute the welfare effects of the program on the poor.