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Working Papers

2021

1. Measuring historical income inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

2020

2. Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Educational Gender Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Long‐Term Perspective, Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc. (2021) View citations (5) (2021)
3. The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Did Agricultural Seasonality undermine Colonial Exports?
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (1)

2017

4. Resource endowments and agricultural commercialization in colonial Africa: Did labour seasonality and food security drive Uganda’s cotton revolution?
   Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (2)

2016

5. Tracing the uneven diffusion of missionary education in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record data
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (2)

2015

6. Climate shocks, cash crops and resilience: Evidence from colonial tropical Africa
   Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History View citations (3)

2014

7. MEASURING RURAL WELFARE IN COLONIAL UGANDA: Why farmers would not work for wages
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Income inequality and export‐oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries
   Economic History Review, 2024, 77, (3), 975-1004

2022

2. Reconstructing income inequality in a colonial cash crop economy: five social tables for Uganda, 1925–1965
   (Long-term trends in income inequality: winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960)
   European Review of Economic History, 2022, 26, (2), 255-283 View citations (5)

2021

3. Educational Gender Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Long‐Term Perspective
   Population and Development Review, 2021, 47, (3), 813-849 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective, African Economic History Working Paper (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
4. The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda
   The Journal of Economic History, 2021, 81, (4), 1098-1136 View citations (2)

2020

5. Rural livelihoods and agricultural commercialization in colonial Uganda: conjunctures of external influences and local realities
   European Review of Economic History, 2020, 24, (3), 631-632
6. Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert, eds., General labour history of Africa: workers, employers and governments, 20th–21st centuries (International Labour Organization: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Pp. v+761. 3 maps. 4 figs. 6 tabs. ISBN 9781847012180 Hbk. £95)
   Economic History Review, 2020, 73, (2), 616-618

2018

7. Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data
   Economic History Review, 2018, 71, (3), 965-994 View citations (8)

2017

8. Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda's smallholders thrive?
   Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (2), 605-631 View citations (25)
9. Weather Shocks and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Tropical Africa: Did Cash Crops Alleviate Social Distress?
   World Development, 2017, 94, (C), 346-365 View citations (14)