Authors: María José Fuentes-Vásquez and Irina España-Eljaiek Read the full paper here The flip side of the story: agrarian commodity production and educational demand Agrarian commodity production usually affects the supply of schooling since this economic structure facilitates the concentration of power in a minority elite that restricts the educational provision to preserve the status […]

Authors: Giovanni Federico and Pablo Martinelli Lasheras Read the full paper here What has to do the exposure to Barbary Pirate raids in Early Modern Italy with vine-planting techniques in the early 20th century? You will learn it by reading this short entry. In a recent paper, Giovanni Federico (New York University Abu Dhabi- NYUAD) […]

David de la Croix, LIDAM/IRES Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium       Mara Vitale, LIDAM/IRES Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium       Read the full paper here This is an updated version of an article that appeared in VOX-CEPR. Cf. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/women-early-modern-academia-catholic-phenomenon.   Despite significant progress in gender equality in academia over the past […]

  Lukas Kuld, University of Limerick, lkuld.github.io and Sara Mitchel, University of Southern Denmark, sara-mitchell.com Read the full paper here   Many studies observe two key patterns in the location of creative workers: the attraction of large cities and proximity to other creative workers. In a new paper (Kuld and Mitchell 2023), we trace the […]

Author: Guillermo Esteban-Oliver Read the full paper here Spain has a much lower proportion of inhabited territory and a significantly greater spatial concentration of population than the rest of Western Europe: approximately 90% of its population lives in only 30% of the national territory (Gutierrez et al., 2020). Although this pattern dates from the pre-industrial […]

Exploring the Economic History of the Arts reveals the profound interplay between economics and the arts throughout history. This burgeoning field offers valuable insights into the economic factors shaping artistic production, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that enrich our understanding and appreciation of art and culture. A recent Special Issue at the European Review of Economic History […]

Author: Alba Roldan Full paper available here and more about Dr Roldan’s research here     Public debt – Sustainability – Spain   Public debt in Spain accounts for 117.7% of GDP (data from the first quarter of 2022). Spain has one of the world’s worst records as a serial defaulter (Comín, 2016). Proof of […]