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 - Immanuel Feld (PGR, Warwick)
Title: Weathering the Energy Crisis: Can Tailored Information to Local Government Spur Climate Action? (With Menna Bishop, Thiemo Fetzer, and Ludovica Gazze)
Abstract: The United Kingdom ranks among the worst European countries in terms of residential energy efficiency and fuel poverty. Although local governments have the tools to influence building upgrades, lack of coordination across levels of government and a systemic under-funding have hindered councils' ability to foster energy efficiency investments. We implement a randomised controlled trial to test whether a bottom-up approach for disseminating academic and policy findings can influence adoption of local policies that deliver energy savings. Leveraging granular energy performance certificates (EPCs), local energy use, census, and property price data, we produced briefs containing rigorous, just-in-time analyses of the projected effects of the energy crisis on residents of districts in England and Wales and of the estimated local benefits of energy efficiency investments. We distributed these briefs to council officers and members, as well as to local media outlets for 165 randomly selected districts. We will estimate the effects of our targeted outreach on public discourse and on the policy-making process.