This paper contributes to a growing literature on long-term trends and drivers of pre-
industrial inequality by providing new stylized facts on the evolution of income inequality in …

This article discusses the evolution of Kenya's wealth distribution from the late 1950s to the
present. Utilizing previously untapped probate and administration sources, it measures the …

Were colonial capitals islands of relative prosperity in West Africa, or did incomes in smaller
cities keep up with income levels in major cities like Dakar? Though recent work has shown …

Recent debates on the economic history of the United States and other regions have
revisited the question of the extent to which slavery and other forms of labor coercion …

This paper shows yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy from 1900 to 1950. By
constructing dynamic social tables, we comprehensively assess inequality across all …

High racial disparities between Europeans and Africans and high skill premiums are
recurrent themes in the literature on inequality in colonial Africa. However, their …

This study presents new empirical evidence on the structure of income of African workers in
the Port of Dakar between 1911 and 1940. It provides a systematic series of public wages …

This research exploits novel evidence on current and historical inequality dynamics, as well
as an instrumental variable (IV) strategy (founded on historical settler mortality à la …

In recent years, economists, historians, and social scientists have been increasingly
involved in an international, scholarly, and public debate on the dynamics and causes of …

Ten years have passed since the publication of the last special issue on African economic
history proclaiming the “renaissance” of the field. We carry out a bibliometric analysis of 114 …