The YSI is putting out a CfP for the winter 2023 series. See their call on their website here, or read it below: We are launching the sixth edition of the YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar this Winter. As in previous editions, we provide a platform for young researchers to present their ongoing work and […]
Smooth Sailing: Market Integration, Agglomeration, and Productivity Growth in Interwar Brazil
By Marc Badia-Miró (Universitat de Barcelona), Anna Carreras-Marín (Universitat de Barcelona) and Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal). Read the full article here The relationship between international exposure and the spatial location of economic activity has proven to be vexing problem for historians and economists. Rosés and Wolf (2019), for instance, observed that the great wave […]
Gender and the Long-Run Development Process: A Survey of the Literature
Youssouf Merouani Department of Economic History Lund University Email: youssouf.merouani@ekh.lu.se Faustine Perrin Department of Economic History Lund University Email: faustine.perrin@ekh.lu.se Read the full paper here Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender equalities? To what extent did women contribute to fostering economic development? Among the first economic historians […]
Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850-2000
By Sergio Espuelas, Universitat de Barcelona (sergio.espuelas@ub.edu) Read the full paper here What is the impact of globalization on the Welfare State? This issue is present in current political debates in many countries around the world. Not surprisingly, it has received a growing attention in academia. However, there is no consensus yet among scholars on […]
The need for a Materfamilias: How important was having a working mother during childhood regarding income mobility?
In the article “Materfamilias: The association of mother’s work on children’s absolute income mobility, Southern Sweden (1947-2015)”, Gabriel Brea-Martinez studies the association of having a gainfully working and economically independent mother with upward absolute income mobility. The article focuses on children born between the 1940s-1980s in Southern Sweden, covered by the Scanian Economic Demographic Database […]
Foreign Investments and Tariff Protection Revisited: Correcting the Trade Balance of the Russian Empire, 1880–1913
By Marina Chuchko, Department of Economic and Social History, The University of Vienna read the full article here and more about Marina’s research here In my new article, I study the accuracy of Russian foreign trade statistics and reconstruct the trade series for the period of Russia’s rapid industrialization between 1880 and 1913. The importance […]
Local Multipliers and the Growth of Services: Evidence from late 19th Century USA, Great Britain, and Sweden
by Vinzent Ostermeyer, Lund University, Department of Economic History. Read more about Vinzent’s reserach here. Read the full paper (open access) here. A common periodization of economic development is that first labor shifts out of agriculture into industry and only then the service sector grows. However, such views disregard that already during the late 19th century […]
Gino Luzzatto Prize 2019-21
At the 2022 EHES Conference in Groningen, Felix Kersting (Humboldt University Berlin) won the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Competition for to the best PhD Dissertation on any subject relating to the economic history of Europe, defended during the period July 2019 to June 2021, for his dissertation on The Political Economy of Social Identity in 19th […]
“Wealth invested in beauty”: reinterpreting Renaissance Florence and the Little Divergence from GDP estimates of 1427 Tuscany
Jan Luiten van Zanden and Emanuele Felice The full paper can be read here How wealthy, and how unequal, was pre-industrial Europe? And how rich was the South of Europe compared to the North Sea area: did the Little Divergence already start in the late Medieval Period? And if this was the case, what are the […]
The Panopticon of Germany’s Foreign Trade. New Facts on the First Globalization, 1880-1913.
Wolf-Fabian HUNGERLAND and Nikolaus WOLF. The full paper in the EREH can be read here We are used to distinguishing between the “first” and the “second” globalization, separated not only by two world wars, but also by changes in technology and institutions, and hence their basic economic logic. The first globalization is typically described in […]