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to the African Economic History Network

The African Economic History Network (AEHN) is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the long-term development of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial era to the present-day. The AEHN holds an annual conference, publishes a working papers series in African Economic History and an open-source textbook The History of African Development, as well as a blog and a newsletter. The network was founded in 2011 with financial assistance from the Swedish Riksbanken.

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Annual Meeting

The 15th Annual Meeting of the AEHN 2020 will take place in October at University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa). Dates to be communicated.

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AEHN Newsletter #47

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Funding

If you or your organisation would like to know more about the activities of the AEHN and how best to support these, please contact us for more information.

The network is currently funded by:

Rural and Environmental History, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden

ERC Starting Grant Program

Blog: Frontiers in African Economic History

African Long-term Inequality Trends – AFLIT

Maria Fibaek and Ellen Hillbom - 11 August 2020

The African Long-term Inequality Trends, AFLIT, is a new research network promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative research on historical inequality in Africa. It consists of scholars based at Lund University, Wageningen University, University of Barcelona, University of Bologna, and Norwegian University...
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AEHN Textbook Project

AEHN Working Papers

Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective

Jörg Baten, Michiel de Haas, Elisabeth Kempter and Felix Meier zu Selhausen

When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset

Kate Ekama, Johan Fourie, Hans Heese and Lisa Martin

Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Belinda Archibong and Nonso Obikili

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Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU·

14 Sep

Don't forget to join us this week for our weekly #webinar!

Laura Channing (PhD Candidate - @Cambridge_Uni) will be presenting "Urban Taxpayers and Colonial Local Government in Freetown"

Presented via Zoom, DM for access.

#econhist #economichistory #EconTwitter

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CSAE @Oxford_CSAE·

11 Sep

Check out this paper by CSAE's Christopher Adam & co-authors on COVID-19 pandemic impact in sub-Saharan Africa. https://twitter.com/ODID_QEH/status/1304099372364435456

ODID@ODID_QEH

A new paper by Christopher Adam with @MarkHenstridge and Stevan Lee of @OPMglobal uses macroeconomic and epidemiological models to explore the effectiveness of different paths to recovery from lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa: https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oxrep/graa023/5899011

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African Economic History Network (AEHN)@AfEconHis·

10 Sep

Effects in econ persistence papers decline substantially when new rigorous spatial techniques applied.

This suggests that countries actually operate more freely from their past (slavery, tsetse, colonial borders, missions) than previously claimed. Useful checklist for reviewers

Alan Fernihough@DiffusePrioR

“Understanding Persistence” by Morgan Kelly re-examines the historical persistence literature in economics from a spatial statistics perspective. I think the results are MASSIVELY important for social science more broadly so here is a thread on the matter (1/13) #EconTwitter

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