Inequality, Institutions and Social Mobility
Mapping Social Stratification in the Making of Modern Argentina, 1850–1900
Reconstructs regional patterns of development, inequality and living standards from individual-level census data in nineteenth-century Argentina.
RISE — Rising through the Ranks: Indian Diaspora from Indentured Labour to Elite
Examines how Indian indentured labourers and their descendants rose from marginalisation to positions of economic and political prominence across colonial plantation societies.
Slavery, Colonialism and Post-Emancipation Societies
I study how slavery, colonial institutions and emancipation shaped inequality, social stratification and socio-economic opportunities over the long run.
Reversal of Fortune or Persistence of Wealth?
Traces wealth inequality, elite persistence and social change in the Danish West Indies from plantation slavery through emancipation and into the twentieth century.
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
Examines the emergence of inequality and social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone through land distribution, marriage, occupations and group belonging.
Trade, Globalisation and Redistribution
I study the distributional consequences of trade and globalisation and their relationship with institutions and long-run development.
WETPOL — Welfare Effects of Trade Policy Instruments
Studies the welfare and distributional effects of alternative trade policies through the nineteenth-century in Britain.
Examines returns to British investment in colonial Africa and the relationship between imperial expansion and the globalization of financial markets.
Historical Populations, Data and Measurement
I study how historical sources become quantitative data and how data construction, digitisation and record linkage affect measurement, representativeness and inference.
Linking Historical Populations: Data Quality, Representativeness, and Population-Level Inference
Develops a comparative framework to assess how source quality, transcription and record linkage shape the representativeness of linked historical data and the robustness of population-level inference.