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:
Bishnupriya Gupta
Co-ordinator
Anant Sudarshan
Deputy Co-ordinator
Research Students
Events
Tue 8 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Thiemo FetzerS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 14 Oct, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Eleonora Guarnieri (Bristol)S2.79Title: Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats) Nearly half of all known languages in the world are under threat of extinction or are already extinct. What are the determinants of language extinction? In this paper, we uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its language’s risk of extinction: languages from more gender-equal societies face a higher likelihood of extinction compared to those from male-dominant societies. We measure language status and male-dominance using the Ethnologue and the Male Dominance Index (Guarnieri and Tur-Prats, 2023), respectively, for a sample of 4,763 languages in 172 countries. Our results show that the negative relationship between male dominance and language extinction holds even after accounting for fundamental determinants of economic development and societal collapse at the language-group level, such as geography, conflict exposure, climate variability, and historical factors, as well as after the inclusion of country fixed effects. We then investigate the impact of inter-group relationships in the context of colonialism by relating each indigenous group to its colonizer in a dyadic setting. We find that societies with more gender-equal norms than those of their colonizers are significantly more prone to language extinction. Cultural distance in gender norms from the colonizer is a stronger predictor of language extinction than the characteristics of either the colonizer or the indigenous group itself. |
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Tue 15 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Alex ZhouS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 16 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Tue 22 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Francesco FerlengaS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 23 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Carolina Kansikas (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 28 Oct, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Guillaume Blanc (Manchester)S2.79Title: Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg) We argue that societies with higher fertility experience increased levels of emigration. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility created a large reservoir of surplus labor that could find better opportunities in the New World. We denote such migrations, from labor-abundant to land-abundant regions, as Malthusian migrations. Our results hold in a variety of datasets and specifications, across countries, regions, individuals, and periods. Using linguistic distance from French and twin births as instruments for fertility in crowdsourced genealogical data, we estimate a large effect of fertility on out-migration. Within households, later born children were more likely to migrate as fertility increased, particularly in regions with egalitarian inheritance. We develop a Malthusian model allowing for emigration as a way to escape population pressures, alleviating the negative effects of high fertility and contributing to the emergence of modern economic growth.
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Tue 29 Oct, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Sara SpazianiS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 30 Oct, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Tue 5 Nov, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Stefano CariaS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 6 Nov, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Tue 12 Nov, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Ling Zhong (HKCUST)Title to be advised. |
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Wed 13 Nov, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advisedS2.79 |
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Mon 18 Nov, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsubashi)S2.79Title: Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms Authors: Chiaki Moriguchi, Yusuke Narita, Mari Tanaka |
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Tue 19 Nov, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Nikhil DattaS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 20 Nov, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Yuchen Lin (PGR)Title to be advised. |
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Tue 26 Nov, '24- |
CWIP Workshop - Anjali Adukia (Chicago)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 27 Nov, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Shobhit Kulshrestha (Tilburg)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 3 Dec, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Bhaskar ChakravortyS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 4 Dec, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Kyle Boutilier (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 17 Feb, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - Toike Aidt (Cambridge)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 10 Mar, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - Arthi Vellore (UCI)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 12 May, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - Andreas Ferrara (Pitt)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 19 May, '25- |
Economic History Seminar - Stephan Heblich (Toronto)S2.79Title to be advised. |