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
Economic History Seminar - Stephan Heblich (Toronto)
Title: The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Grain Invasion (with Stephen Redding and Yanos Zylberberg).
Here is the abstract:
We provide new evidence on the income distributional consequences of trade using the
New World Grain Invasion in the 19th Century and variation in agroclimatic suitability for
wheat across locations within England and Wales. We show that this large-scale agricultural
trade shock led to structural transformation away from agriculture and a redistribution of
population from rural to urban areas. We develop a quantitative spatial model to rationalize
our empirical findings and evaluate the aggregate implications of this international trade
shock. We use our model to undertake counterfactuals for the Grain invasion, holding constant
other exogenous determinants of economic activity. We find modest aggregate welfare
gains combined with much larger income distributional effects, with geography an important
dimension along which these income distributional effects occur.