Although there are usually more widows in the world than widowers, little is known about the economic impact of the...

Ten years have passed since the publication of the last special issue on African economic history proclaiming the “renaissance” of...

Netflix’s the New Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) remains one of the most infamous studies in the...

Colonial concession companies like Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) relied heavily on coercive labour systems to manage the high...

This research explores how South Sudan’s current looming crisis is rooted in a century-long history of coercive and predatory revenue-raising...

We provide new spatial and historical data to overturn the common claims that (i) African borders were decided at the...

Can you ever really think what someone else is thinking? Most of us have had the experience of looking into...

Last month I sent one of my overseas contractors $1,500, and she got $1,391 of it. I didn’t take a...

How do trade booms affect labor in economies where multiple coercive labor systems coexist? Drawing on newly digitized census microdata...

What did economic and political power look like in the eighteenth century Cape Colony—and who held it? In our study...