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
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Jiaqi Li (PGR)
Two 30mins presentations:
No.1 Human Capital, Self-Insurance, and Marriage Uncertainty: Racial Differences in Female Labor Supply
Abstract: Racial difference in female labour supply has been a puzzle in both economics and sociology as it is found not explained by economics, demographic or family variables. This paper first shows that racial gap is driven by married Black women with high wages in the South returning to the labor market almost immediately after childbirth. Failed to find any contemporaneous covariates to explain the gap, I build a life cycle model of female labor supply, consumption, and savings with uncertainty in divorce shock. Only using the racial difference in marriage and divorce rates, the model is able to generate the same racial gap in child penalties as empirical estimates. The structural model illustrates that Black women stay in the labor market to prevent human capital from depreciation as a means to self-insure against future divorce shocks.
Link to paper https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/jli/others/li_2022.pdf
No.2 Double Negative: Climate Change, Seasonality and Schooling
Abstract: Literature finds ambiguous or weak effects of annual average rainfall on schooling. This paper, however, demonstrates that rainfall has a significantly opposite effect on school enrollment, depending on the season in which it occurs. Increased precipitation in the dry season enhances schooling, while it reduces schooling in the wet season. Measuring rainfall annually cancels out the double negative impact, as climate change pushes precipitation in opposite directions between the two seasons. The paper calls for urgent policy measures for child protection in development against climate risks