AEHN working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. The papers have not been peer reviewed, but published at the discretion of the AEHN committee.
2018
African Economic History Network Working Paper #40
Tax compliance under indirect rule in British AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #39
The Khohkoi Population: A Review of Evidence and Two New EstimatesAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #38
Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960African Economic History Network Working Paper #37
A 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 #36
African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic DevelopmentAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #35
The Gun-Slave Hypothesis and the 18th Century British Slave TradeAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #34
The land-labour hypothesis revised: Wealth, labour and household composition at the South African frontierAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #33
Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building social tables for pre-independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast and SenegalAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #32
Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895-2011
2016
African Economic History Network Working Paper #31
Commodities, Prices and Risk: The changing market for non-slave products in pre-abolition West AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #30
“For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape ColonyAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #29
The development of settler agriculture in British Africa revisited: estimating the role of tenant labour in Southern Rhodesia, c 1920-1960African Economic History Network Working Paper #28
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a reviewAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #27
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa: a reviewAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #26
Patronage or Meritocracy? Public sector employment in postcolonial Kenya, Tanzania and UgandaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #25
Gender, ethnicity and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record dataAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #24
From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional responses to labour scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt
2015
African Economic History Network Working Paper #23
Is Africa too late for 'late development'? Gerschenkron south of the SaharaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #22
Fiscal capacity and state formation in Francophone West Africa, 1850-2010African Economic History Network Working Paper #21
Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systemsAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #20
Financing the African Colonial State: the revenue imperative and forced labour
2014
African Economic History Network Working Paper #19
The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920sAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #18
Measuring Rural Welfare in Colonial Uganda: Why farmers would not work for wagesAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #17
CLIMATE SHOCKS AND CONFLICT: EVIDENCE FROM COLONIAL NIGERIAAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #16
Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Colonial AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #15
Missionaries and female empowerment in colonial Uganda: new evidence from Protestant marriage registers, 1880-1945
2013
African Economic History Network Working Paper #14
Development under the surface– unintended consequences of settler institutions in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-1962African Economic History Network Working Paper #13
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Political Authority in West AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #12
Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1936-1964African Economic History Network Working Paper #11
Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940African Economic History Network Working Paper #10
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-presentAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #9
The Development of Commercial Agriculture in Pre-Colonial AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #8
Vent for surplus or Productivity Breakthrough? The Ghanian Cocoa Take-Off, c. 1890-1936African Economic History Network Working Paper #7
Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
2012
African Economic History Network Working Paper #6
Slavery, Statehood and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #5
Colonialism and development in AfricaAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #4
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial TimesAfrican Economic History Network Working Paper #3
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954African Economic History Network Working Paper #2
Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African agency: Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940African Economic History Network Working Paper #1
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources