Reading Group

11 November 2025, CKK 2.18, midday

Logan, T. D., & Parman, J. M. (2025). 'Racial Residential Segregation in the United States' Journal of Economic Literature, 63(3), 964–1010. doi: 10.1257/jel.20241373

The paper discusses how to measure segregation, what the drivers of segregation were and what the impact of segregation has been on demographic and economic outcomes. While the focus is on the United States, segregation is a feature of many cities and therefore has consequences for other historical contexts.

Faculty: Joan Roses
Student: Johann Ohler

13 May 2025

Costa et al. 'The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality'
Faculty: Eric Schneider
Student: Hampton Gaddy

4 March 2025

Frankema, E (2024). From the Great Divergence to South-South Divergence: New comparative horizons in global economic history.
Faculty: Kent Deng
Student: Tom Learmouth

22 October 2024

Kerby, E., Moradi, A., & Odendaal, H. (2024). African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? The Economic History Review. doi: 10.1111/ehr.13344. The paper conducts text analysis on historical travelers accounts in precolonial Africa.
Faculty: Leigh Gardner
Student: Nick Fitzhenry

11 June 2024

Clarke, D., Jaña, M. L., & Pailañir, D. (2023). The use of quantile methods in economic history. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 56(2), 115–132. doi: 10.1080/01615440.2023.2198272

Faculty: Andy Seltzer
Student: Luisa Bicalho-Ritzkat

12 March 2024

Amendola, N., Gabbuti, G., & Vecchi, G. (2023). On some problems of using the Human Development Index in economic history. European Review of Economic History, 27(4), 477–505. doi: 10.1093/ereh/head008

Faculty: Mary Morgan
Student: Andres Irarrazaval

24 October 2023

Durlauf, S. N. (2023). The Journey of Humanity by Oded Galor: A Review Essay. Population and Development Review, 49(2), 403–421. Doi: 10.1111/padr.12566

Faculty: Jason Lennard
Student: Julius Koschnick

22 November 2022
Beach and Hanlon Historical Newspaper Data: A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit.

Faculty: Melanie Xue
Student: Alex Green

31 January 2023
Merouani and Perrin Gender and the Long-run Development Process: A survey of the literature

Faculty: Sara Horrell
Student: Debbie Fan

8 June 2023
Dennison Context is Everything: The problem of history in quantitative social science

Faculty: Mohamed Saleh
Student Victor Perez-Sanchez

12 November 2021
Glaeser What can Developing Cities Today Learn from the Urban Past?

Faculty: Max Schulze
Student: Hilary Vipond

7 December 2021
Ward Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for race and measurement error

Faculty: Chris Minns
Student: Ziming Zhu

20 October 2020
Court A Reassessment of the Great Divergence Debate: Towards a reconciliation of apparently distinct determinants

Faculty: Tirthankar Roy (cancelled at last moment because of emergency)
Student: Nora Qiu

1 December 2020
Nunn History as Evolution

Faculty: Mary Morgan
Student: Juliana Jaramillo

16 February 2021
Esteves and Mesevage Social Networks in Economic History: Opportunities and challenges

Faculty: Patrick Wallis
Student: Aurelius Noble

2 March 2021
Ogilvie Thinking Carefully about Inclusiveness: Evidence from European Guilds

Faculty Oliver Volckart
Student: Juan Jose Rivas Moreno

8 June 2021
Voth Persistence: Myth and mystery

Faculty: Gerben Bakker
Student: Felix Schaff

15 October 2019
Kelly Standard Errors of Persistence

Faculty: Joan Roses
Student: Andrea Ramazotti

19 November 2019
Abramitsky et al Automated Linking of Historical Data

Faculty: Chris Minns
Student: Charlie Udale

28 January 2020
Rosenthal Seeking a Quantitative Middle Ground: Reflections on methods and opportunities in Economic History and Flandreau Border Crossing

Faculty: Leigh Gardner
Student: Alka Raman

10 March 2020
Olsson and Paik A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early Agriculture

Faculty: Neil Cummins
Student: Mario Cuenda-Garcia

16 June 2020
Schneider Collider Bias in Economic History Research

Faculty: Eric Schneider