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
CWIP Workshop - Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto
Title: Transitory health shocks, human capital and crime: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in Brazil.
Abstract: This paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of dengue fever on educational and
behavioural outcomes. Using matched administrative data linking official dengue notifications,
school census records, and police reports for the universe of public secondary school students in
Minas Gerais, Brazil, we estimate the impact of individual health shocks on grade progression,
dropout, and subsequent involvement in crime. Identification exploits within-school and within-
neighbourhood variation in dengue exposure over an eleven-year period, with rich student and
classroom controls and detailed temperature measures. We find that dengue infections during
the school year increase grade retention by about 5 percent and school dropout by roughly
4 percent relative to baseline means. Linking the same students to police records, we show that
dengue infections also raise criminal involvement by 9–12 percent in the following years, driven
primarily by property and violent offenses. The results reveal that even short-lived illnesses can
have lasting consequences for human capital formation and youth behaviour, underscoring the
broader social costs of infectious diseases and the potential gains from targeted vaccination and
vector-control policies.