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
AMES (Applied Microeconomics Early Stage) Workshop - Shruti Agarwal and Chris Burnitt (PGRs)
Two 30 minutes presentations.
i) Shruti will present Public Access, Feasible Choice, and Social Sorting
Exposure to out-group peers in childhood can shape trust, cooperation, and shared norms. Schools are a primary venue for such contact, but sorting across schools within local markets determines who meets whom. This paper estimates the causal effect of increased nearby public-school access on caste segregation across public primary schools. Using geocoded administrative data from rural India over 13 years, I construct distance-based local education markets and measure within-market segregation and peer exposure. I exploit a national reform that tightened proximity standards, using baseline eligibility for the reform as an instrument for realised local access. IV estimates indicate that expanding nearby public-school access increases segregation across public schools. Mechanism evidence is consistent with re-sorting across incumbent public schools: enrolment shifts away from mixed-composition schools, the cross-school distribution of composition becomes more dispersed, and students’ exposure to out-group peers declines, widening exposure gaps. The results suggest that supply-side expansions in public provision can raise segregation by creating new margins for same-group sorting within the public sector.
ii) Chris will present Failure to launch political campaigns: The impact of candidate dropout on electoral campaigns and voter preferences.