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AEHN Working Papers in African Economic History are intended to disseminate research results to other scholars in order to encourage discussion and suggestions before journal publication. The papers have not undergone peer-review but published at the discretion of the Board of the AEHN. AEHN Working Papers are also available via RePEc/IDEAS.

Potential working papers should be submitted to the editors: Leigh Gardner (LSE) and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University).

2024

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 78
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962
Denis Cogneau, Yannick Dupraz, Elise Huillery and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 77
Early-Modern Globalization and the Extent of Indigenous Agency: Trade, Commodities, and Ecology
Ann M. Carlos, Erik Green, Calumet Links and Angela Redish
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 76
Circular Migration, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Long-Run Evidence from Mozambique
Jon Denton-Schneider
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 75
Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975
Hélder Carvalhal and Nuno Palma

2023

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 74
Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa
Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 73
Welfare Experiences of Portuguese Angolan Miners: A Longitudinal Comparative Study, 1918-1974
Leo Dolan
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 72
Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?
Bastian Becker and Felix Meier zu Selhausen
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 71
Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?
Yannick Dupraz and Rebecca Simson
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 70
Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa
Nonso Obikili

2022

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 69
The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia
Mhamed Ben Salah, Céderic Chambru and Maleke Fourati
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 68
Skill, Race, and Income Inequality in the Wage Sector in British Tanganyika
Sascha Klocke

2021

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 67
The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017
Sascha Klocke and Morten Jerven
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 66
A Case of its Own? A Review of Italy’s Colonisation of Eritrea, 1890-1941
Morten Jerven, Jacob Weisdorf and Donatella Strangio
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 65
Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women Political Participation in Africa
Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza and Matthew Clance
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 64
State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa
Bastian Becker
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 63
Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?
Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt, Michiel de Haas and Federico Tadei
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 62
Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960
Erik Green and Mark Nyandoro
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 61
Why Africa is not that Poor
Ewout Frankema
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 60
The Fruits of the Boom: Real Wages and Housing Costs in Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)
Tom Westland

2020

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 59
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Did Agricultural Seasonality undermine Colonial Exports?
Michiel de Haas
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 58
On the Freetown Waterfront: Household Income and Informal Wage Labour in a Nineteenth Century Port City
Laura Channing and Bronwen Everill
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 57
Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony
Igor Martins
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 56
Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and Comparisons with British Colonies 1920-1960
Facundo Alvaredo, Denis Cogneau and Thomas Piketty
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 55
The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth
Thilo N. H. Albers, Morten Jerven and Marvin Suesse
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 54
Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective
Jörg Baten, Michiel de Haas, Elisabeth Kempter and Felix Meier zu Selhausen
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 53
When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset
Kate Ekama, Johan Fourie, Hans Heese and Lisa Martin
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 52
Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Belinda Archibong and Nonso Obikili
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 51
Up the River: International Slave Trades and the Transformations of Slavery in Africa
Warren C. Whatley

2019

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 50
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa
Morten Jerven
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 49
The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development
Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 48
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa
Felix Meier zu Selhausen
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 47
The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries
Dieter von Fintel and Johan Fourie
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 46
Mining, Paternalism and the Spread of Education in the Congo since 1920
Dacil Juif
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 45
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970
Shane Doyle, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 44
Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its Effects on Colonial Public Finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910
Abel Gwaindepi
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 43
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders
Igor Martins

2018

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 42
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier
Calumet Links, Johan Fourie and Erik Green
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 41
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years
Jens Andersson
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 40
Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa
Jutta Bolt and Leigh Gardner
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 39
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates
Sumner La Croix
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 38
Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960
Prince Young Aboagye and Jutta Bolt
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 37
A Comparative Analysis of East and West African Cotton Cloth Production from the Early Modern to the Post-colonial Era
Kate Frederick

2012

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 6
Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dirk Bezemer, Jutta Bolt and Robert Lensink
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 5
Colonialism and development in Africa
Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 4
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times
Denis Gogneau and Alexander Moradi
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 3
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
Morten Jerven
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 2
Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African agency: Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940
Erik Green
African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph E. Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

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2024

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 78Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 77Early-Modern Globalization and the Extent of Indigenous Agency: Trade, Commodities, and Ecology

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 76Circular Migration, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Long-Run Evidence from Mozambique

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 75Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975

2023

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 74Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 73Welfare Experiences of Portuguese Angolan Miners: A Longitudinal Comparative Study, 1918-1974

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 72Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 71Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 70Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa

2022

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 69The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 68Skill, Race, and Income Inequality in the Wage Sector in British Tanganyika

2021

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 67The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 66A Case of its Own? A Review of Italy’s Colonisation of Eritrea, 1890-1941

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 65Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women Political Participation in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 64State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 63Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 62Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 61Why Africa is not that Poor

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 60The Fruits of the Boom: Real Wages and Housing Costs in Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)

2020

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 59The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Did Agricultural Seasonality undermine Colonial Exports?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 58On the Freetown Waterfront: Household Income and Informal Wage Labour in a Nineteenth Century Port City

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 57Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 56Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and Comparisons with British Colonies 1920-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 55The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 54Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 53When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 52Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 51Up the River: International Slave Trades and the Transformations of Slavery in Africa

2019

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 50African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 49The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 48Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 47The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 46Mining, Paternalism and the Spread of Education in the Congo since 1920

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 45The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 44Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its Effects on Colonial Public Finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 43An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders

2018

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 42Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 41Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 40Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 39The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 38Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 37A Comparative Analysis of East and West African Cotton Cloth Production from the Early Modern to the Post-colonial Era

2017

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 36African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 35The Gun-Slave Hypothesis and the 18th Century British Slave Trade

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 34The Land-Labour Hypothesis Revised: Wealth, Labour and Household Composition at the South African Frontier

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 33Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast and Senegal

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 32Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda, 1895-2011

2016

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 31Commodities, Prices and Risk: The Changing Market for Non-Slave Products in Pre-Abolition West Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 30“For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape Colony

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 29The Development of Settler Agriculture in British Africa Revisited: Estimating the Role of Tenant Labour in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1920-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 28Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a review

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 27Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa: a review

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 26Patronage or Meritocracy? Public sector employment in postcolonial Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 25Gender, ethnicity and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record data

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 24From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt

2015

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 23Is Africa too late for 'late development'? Gerschenkron south of the Sahara

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 22Fiscal Capacity and State Formation in Francophone West Africa, 1850-2010

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 21Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 20Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labour

2014

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 19The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 18Measuring Rural Welfare in Colonial Uganda: Why Farmers Would not Work for Wages

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 17Climate Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Colonial Nigeria

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 16Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 15Missionaries and Female Empowerment in Colonial Uganda: New Evidence from Protestant Marriage Registers, 1880-1945

2013

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 14Development under the surface– unintended consequences of settler institutions in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-1962

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 13The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Political Authority in West Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 12Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1936-1964

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 11Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 78
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 77
Early-Modern Globalization and the Extent of Indigenous Agency: Trade, Commodities, and Ecology

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 76
Circular Migration, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Long-Run Evidence from Mozambique

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 75
Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 74
Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 73
Welfare Experiences of Portuguese Angolan Miners: A Longitudinal Comparative Study, 1918-1974

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 72
Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 71
Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What can names tell us?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 70
Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 69
The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 68
Skill, Race, and Income Inequality in the Wage Sector in British Tanganyika

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 67
The Nexus between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Lessons from Long-term Trends in Tanzania, 1961-2017

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 66
A Case of its Own? A Review of Italy’s Colonisation of Eritrea, 1890-1941

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 65
Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women Political Participation in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 64
State-Church Synergies in Colonial Empires: Longitudinal Evidence on Missionary Expansion in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 63
Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 62
Labour, Capital and Property Rights in a Land Abundant Peasant Economy: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1930-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 61
Why Africa is not that Poor

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 60
The Fruits of the Boom: Real Wages and Housing Costs in Dakar, Senegal (1914-1960)

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 59
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Did Agricultural Seasonality undermine Colonial Exports?

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 58
On the Freetown Waterfront: Household Income and Informal Wage Labour in a Nineteenth Century Port City

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 57
Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 56
Income Inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and Comparisons with British Colonies 1920-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 55
The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from a century of growth

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 54
Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 53
When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 52
Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 51
Up the River: International Slave Trades and the Transformations of Slavery in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 50
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 49
The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 48
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 47
The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 46
Mining, Paternalism and the Spread of Education in the Congo since 1920

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 45
The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 44
Serving God and Mammon: The ‘Minerals-Railway Complex’ and its Effects on Colonial Public Finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 43
An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Effects of an Import Ban on Cape Colony Slaveholders

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 42
Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 41
Tax Stabilisation, Trade and Political Transitions in Francophone West Africa over 120 Years

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 40
Tax Compliance under Indirect Rule in British Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 39
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New Estimates

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 38
Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 37
A Comparative Analysis of East and West African Cotton Cloth Production from the Early Modern to the Post-colonial Era

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 36
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 35
The Gun-Slave Hypothesis and the 18th Century British Slave Trade

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 34
The Land-Labour Hypothesis Revised: Wealth, Labour and Household Composition at the South African Frontier

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 33
Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast and Senegal

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 32
Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda, 1895-2011

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 31
Commodities, Prices and Risk: The Changing Market for Non-Slave Products in Pre-Abolition West Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 30
“For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape Colony

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 29
The Development of Settler Agriculture in British Africa Revisited: Estimating the Role of Tenant Labour in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1920-1960

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 28
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a review

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 27
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa: a review

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 26
Patronage or Meritocracy? Public sector employment in postcolonial Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 25
Gender, ethnicity and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record data

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 24
From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 23
Is Africa too late for 'late development'? Gerschenkron south of the Sahara

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 22
Fiscal Capacity and State Formation in Francophone West Africa, 1850-2010

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 21
Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 20
Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labour

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 19
The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 18
Measuring Rural Welfare in Colonial Uganda: Why Farmers Would not Work for Wages

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 17
Climate Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Colonial Nigeria

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 16
Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 15
Missionaries and Female Empowerment in Colonial Uganda: New Evidence from Protestant Marriage Registers, 1880-1945

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 14
Development under the surface– unintended consequences of settler institutions in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-1962

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 13
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Political Authority in West Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 12
Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1936-1964

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 11
Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 10
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 9
The Development of Commercial Agriculture in Pre-Colonial Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 8
Vent for surplus or Productivity Breakthrough? The Ghanian Cocoa Take-Off, c. 1890-1936

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 7
Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 6
Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 5
Colonialism and development in Africa

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 4
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 3
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 2
Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African agency: Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940

African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources