To what extent did sub‐Saharan Africa's twentieth century schooling revolution benefit boys
and girls equally? Using census data and a cohort approach, we examine gender gaps in …

How did Christianity expand in Africa to become the continent's dominant religion? Using
annual panel census data on Christian missions from 1751 to 1932 in Ghana, and pre-1924 …

In this paper, we estimate series of the skill premium for Italy during the early stages of the
industrialization with a refined version of the regression approach originally introduced by …

How and why did African households under colonial rule make the decision to educate their
children or not, and how did this micro-level decision making affect the diffusion of education …

Christian missions in colonial Africa have contributed significantly to the expansion of formal
education and thereby shaped the continent's long-term economic and political …

From the late 19th into the mid-20th century millions of people migrated, seasonally or more
permanently, to regions where African farmers produced cocoa, groundnuts, coffee, cotton …

Limited knowledge of African inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of the
drivers of heterogeneous inequality outcomes in Africa today, and leads to a major omission …

This study presents new empirical evidence on the structure of income of African workers in
the Port of Dakar between 1911 and 1940. It provides a systematic series of public wages …

Limited knowledge of African inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of the
drivers of heterogeneous inequality outcomes in Africa today, and leads to a major omission …

Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly
independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to …