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Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
(2024-02)In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We ... -
The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
(2024-02)It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ... -
Did industrialization improve the skill composition of the population? Evidence from Sweden, 1870 to 1930
(2024-03)This paper documents the changing skill composition during industrialization in Sweden using population censuses and HISCO/HISCLASS scheme. The results reveal a general shift from unskilled to more-skilled occupations, ... -
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
(2024-03)The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ... -
Slavery, Resistance and Repression: A Quantitative Empirical Investigation
(2024-03)In this article, we study what individual and social characteristics made it more likely for an individual to resist slavery. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to ... -
Skill Premium in Sweden, 1900–1950
(2024-04)This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using newly digitized data on income taxes, this paper demonstrates ... -
The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency - Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
(2024-04)The prevailing literature on global state capacity suggests that: 1) Europe was pulling ahead of other regions in the early modern period, and 2) state capacity in this period was mostly dedicated to the purposes of ...