Publications

Land, Labour, Legacies: Long-term Trends in Inequality and Living Standards in Tanzania, c. 1920-2020 Sascha Klocke, 2021 Sep 1, Lund: MediaTryck Lund. 313 p.

Aboagye, P. Y. (2021). Inequality of education in colonial Ghana: European influences and African responses, Economic History of Developing Regions

Fibaek, M.M. (2021). Rural differentiation and rural change: Microlevel evidence from Kenya. Journal of Agrarian Change

Aboagye, P. Y. & Bolt, J. (2021). Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960. Explorations in Economic History

De Haas, M. (2021). Reconstructing income inequality in a colonial cash crop economy: five social tables for Uganda, 1925–1965. European Review of Economic History

Hillbom, E., Bolt, J., De Haas, M. & Tadei, F. (2021). Measuring historical inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?

Aboagye, P. Y., & Hillbom, E. (2020). Tax bargaining, fiscal contracts, and fiscal capacity in Ghana: A long-term perspective. African Affairs, 119(475), 177-202.

Aboagye, P. Y. (2020). Inequality and Uneven Development in Ghana

Hillbom, E., & Bolt, J. (2018). Botswana–A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough. Springer.

Aboagye, P. Y. & Bolt, J. (2018). Economic Inequality in Ghana, 1891-1960

De Haas, M., & Frankema, E. (2018). Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data. The Economic History Review, 71(3), 965-994.

De Haas, M. (2017). Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive? The Economic History Review, 70(2), 605-631.

Alfani, G. & Tadei, F. (2017). Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, and Senegal

Bolt, J., & Hillbom, E. (2016). Long‐term trends in economic inequality: lessons from colonial Botswana, 1921–74. The Economic History Review, 69(4), 1255-1284.

Bolt, J., & Hillbom, E. (2015). Potential for Diversification? The Role of the Formal Sector in Bechuanaland Protectorate’s Economy, 1900–65. Economic History of Developing Regions, 30(2), 95-124.