How did Christianity expand in sub-Saharan Africa to become the region’s dominant religion? Christian missions in the 19th and early...

Can wealth shocks have intergenerational health consequences? This paper explores the wealth-health gradient among Cape Colony slaveholders using a shortfall...

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Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’....

Deindustrialization theories have long purported that industrial production in sub-Saharan Africa and most other parts of the Global South fell...

Ralph Hertwig: “We can learn how to deal better with risk” Our risk appetite influences many of the decisions we...

Has secular education contributed to the decline of polygyny in Africa? To answer this question we study a wave of...

How much have states in Africa raised in taxes, now and in the past? And why do modern African states...

Colin Camerer, 2013 MacArthur Fellow Colin Camerer on the Neuroscience of Economic Thinking Economics often starts with an assumption that...

Are leaders randomly selected? Could the presence of colonial schools in a region increase the likelihood of producing leaders in...