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Working papers

2026

  1. Gehrke, Esther, 2026, "Migration Opportunities and Human Capital Investments," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18570, Apr.

2024

  1. Sofia Badini & Esther Gehrke & Friederike Lenel & Claudia Schupp, 2024, "Expanding Horizons A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Acquisition," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 11225.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Genthner, Robert & Kis-Katos, Krisztina, 2024, "Regulating Manufacturing FDI: Local Labor Market Responses to a Protectionist Policy in Indonesia," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 16835, Feb.

2023

  1. Esther Gehrke & Friederike Lenel & Claudia Schupp, 2023, "Occupational Aspirations and Investments in Education: Experimental Evidence from Cambodia," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 10608.

2022

  1. Esther Gehrke & Friederike Lenel & Claudia Schupp, 2022, "Covid-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships and Schooling Outcomes," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9702.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Lenel, Friederike & Schupp, Claudia, 2022, "Interest exploration and investments in education: Experimental evidence from Cambodia," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number k6tqr, Sep, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/k6tqr.
  3. González Amador, Michelle & Cowan, Robin & Nillesen, Eleonora, 2022, "Peer networks and malleability of educational aspirations," MERIT Working Papers, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), number 2022-028, Sep.

2021

  1. Bolt, Jutta & Hillbom, Ellen & De Haas, Michiel & Tadei, Federico, 2021, "Measuring historical income inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 16218, Jun.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Kubitza, Christoph, 2021, "Agricultural productivity and fertility: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number y8wa6, Apr, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/y8wa6.

2020

  1. Baten, Joerg & de Haas, Michiel & Kempter, Elisabeth & Meier zu Selhausen, Felix, 2020, "Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 54/2019, Mar, DOI: https://www.aehnetwork.org/wp-conte.
  2. de Haas, Michiel, 2020, "The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Did Agricultural Seasonality undermine Colonial Exports?," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 59/2020, Dec, DOI: https://www.aehnetwork.org/wp-conte.
  3. Andrew D. Foster & Esther Gehrke, 2020, "Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities," Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics, number 2020-19.

2019

  1. Debela, Bethelhem Legesse & Gehrke, Esther & Qaim, Matin, 2019, "Maternal employment and child nutrition in rural Tanzania," 2019 Sixth International Conference, September 23-26, 2019, Abuja, Nigeria, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE), number 295833, Sep, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.295833.
  2. Debela, Bethelhem Legesse & Gehrke, Esther & Qaim, Matin, 2019, "Links between maternal employment and child nutrition in rural Tanzania," GlobalFood Discussion Papers, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, number 291358, Jul, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.291358.
  3. Doyle, Shane & Meier zu Selhausen, Felix & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2019, "The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 45/2019, Apr.
  4. Meier zu Selhausen, Felix, 2019, "Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 48/2019, Sep.

2018

  1. Kubitza, C. & Gehrke, E., 2018, "Labor-saving technological change and decreasing fertility rates: The oil palm boom in Indonesia," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, International Association of Agricultural Economists, number 276966, Jul, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.276966.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Hartwig, Renate, 2018, "Productive Effects of Public Works Programs: What do we know? What should we know?," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number mpksj, Jun, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/mpksj.
  3. Kubitza, Christoph & Gehrke, Esther, 2018, "Why does a labor-saving technology decrease fertility rates? Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia," EFForTS Discussion Paper Series, University of Goettingen, Collaborative Research Centre 990 "EFForTS, Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)", number 22.
  4. Remi Jedwab & Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Alexander Moradi, 2018, "The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development," CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, number 2018-07.

2017

  1. Michiel de Haas & Kostadis J. Papaioannou, 2017, "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), number 0111, Apr.
  2. Meier zu Selhausen , Felix & van Leeuwen , Marco H. D. & Wiesdorf, Jacob L., 2017, "Social mobility among christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895-2011," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 32/2017, Jan.

2016

  1. de Haas , Michiel & Frankema , Ewout, 2016, "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, number 25/2016, May.

2015

  1. Kostadis J. Papaioannou & Michiel de Haas, 2015, "Climate shocks, cash crops and resilience: Evidence from colonial tropical Africa," Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History, number 0076, Nov.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Hartwig, Renate, 2015, "How can public works programmes create sustainable employment?," IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), number 11/2015.
  3. Gehrke, Esther, 2015, "Can public works infrastructure affect employment outcomes? Evidence from the NREGS in India," IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), number 9/2015.
  4. Meier zu Selhausen, Felix P. & van Leeuwen, Marco H.D. & Weisdorf, Jacob L., 2015, "Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Ugandan Marriage Registers 1895-2011," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 239.

2014

  1. de Haas, Michiel, 2014, "MEASURING RURAL WELFARE IN COLONIAL UGANDA: Why farmers would not work for wages," African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network, number 18/2014, Oct.
  2. Esther Gehrke, 2014, "An employment guarantee as risk insurance? Assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions," Working Papers, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), number 152, May.
  3. Gehrke, Esther & Grimm, Michael, 2014, "Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 8525, Oct.
  4. Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Jacob Weisdorf, 2014, "A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011," Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History, number 0060, Jul.

2013

  1. F. Meier zu Selhausen & E. Stam, 2013, "Husbands and Wives. The powers and perils of participation in a microfinance cooperative for female entrepreneurs," Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics, number 13-10.

2012

  1. Gehrke, Esther, 2012, "Short-term effects of the global economic and financial crisis on households in three developing countries: the cases of El Salvador, Tajikistan and Cambodia," IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), number 11/2012.

2011

  1. Gehrke, Esther, 2011, "Can micro-insurance cover natural risks?," IDOS Discussion Papers, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), number 9/2011.

2009

  1. Felix Paul Meier zu Selhausen, 2009, "On Geography and Institutions as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment. A cross country comparative analysis of sub-Saharan African relative to developing countries," Documentos de trabajo sobre cooperación y desarrollo, Cátedra de Cooperación Internacional y con Iberoamérica (COIBA), Universidad de Cantabria, number 200906, Dec.

Undated

  1. Meier zu Selhausen, Felix, undated, "Women's empowerment in Uganda: colonial roots and contemporary efforts, 1894-2012," Economics PhD Theses, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, number 0715, December.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Cinque, Andrea & Gehrke, Esther & Reiners, Lennart, 2026, "Confined to stay: Migration restrictions, natural disasters, and poverty," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 178, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103605.

2025

  1. Gehrke, Esther & Genthner, Robert & Kis-Katos, Krisztina, 2025, "Regulating manufacturing FDI: Local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 177, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103563.

2024

  1. Ellen Hillbom & Jutta Bolt & Michiel de Haas & Federico Tadei, 2024, "Income inequality and export‐oriented commercialization in colonial Africa: Evidence from six countries," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 77, issue 3, pages 975-1004, August, DOI: 10.1111/ehr.13304.
  2. Esther Gehrke & Christoph Kubitza, 2024, "Agricultural Productivity and Fertility Rates: Evidence from the Oil Palm Boom in Indonesia," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, volume 59, issue 1, pages 316-347.

2023

  1. Esther Gehrke & Friederike Lenel & Claudia Schupp, 2023, "COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, volume 18, issue 3, pages 522-546, Summer, DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00378.

2022

  1. Michiel de Haas, 2022, "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, European Historical Economics Society, volume 26, issue 2, pages 255-283.

2021

  1. Joerg Baten & Michiel de Haas & Elisabeth Kempter & Felix Meier zu Selhausen, 2021, "Educational Gender Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Long‐Term Perspective," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., volume 47, issue 3, pages 813-849, September, DOI: 10.1111/padr.12430.
  2. de Haas, Michiel, 2021, "The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, volume 81, issue 4, pages 1098-1136, December.
  3. Bethelhem Legesse Debela & Esther Gehrke & Matin Qaim, 2021, "Links between Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Rural Tanzania," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, volume 103, issue 3, pages 812-830, May, DOI: 10.1111/ajae.12113.
  4. Jedwab, Remi & Meier zu Selhausen, Felix & Moradi, Alexander, 2021, "Christianization without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, volume 190, issue C, pages 573-596, DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.015.

2020

  1. Michiel De Haas, 2020, "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," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 73, issue 2, pages 616-618, May, DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12989.
  2. Michiel De Haas, 2020, "Rural livelihoods and agricultural commercialization in colonial Uganda: conjunctures of external influences and local realities," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, volume 24, issue 3, pages 631-632.

2019

  1. Esther Gehrke, 2019, "An Employment Guarantee as Risk Insurance? Assessing the Effects of the NREGS on Agricultural Production Decisions," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, volume 33, issue 2, pages 413-435.

2018

  1. Michiel De Haas & Ewout Frankema, 2018, "Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 71, issue 3, pages 965-994, August, DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12618.
  2. Gehrke, Esther & Hartwig, Renate, 2018, "Productive effects of public works programs: What do we know? What should we know?," World Development, Elsevier, volume 107, issue C, pages 111-124, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.031.
  3. Esther Gehrke & Michael Grimm, 2018, "Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, volume 66, issue 4, pages 673-707, DOI: 10.1086/697414.
  4. Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Marco H. D. van Leeuwen & Jacob L. Weisdorf, 2018, "Social mobility among Christian Africans: evidence from Anglican marriage registers in Uganda, 1895–2011," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 71, issue 4, pages 1291-1321, November, DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12616.

2017

  1. Michiel Haas, 2017, "Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda's smallholders thrive?," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 70, issue 2, pages 605-631, May.
  2. Papaioannou, Kostadis J. & de Haas, Michiel, 2017, "Weather Shocks and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Tropical Africa: Did Cash Crops Alleviate Social Distress?," World Development, Elsevier, volume 94, issue C, pages 346-365, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.019.

2016

  1. Felix Meier zu Selhausen, 2016, "What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 22, issue 1, pages 130-157, January, DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1088960.
  2. Felix Meier Zu Selhausen & Jacob Weisdorf, 2016, "A colonial legacy of African gender inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895–2011," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, volume 69, issue 1, pages 229-257, February.

2014

  1. Esther Gehrke, 2014, "The Insurability Framework Applied to Agricultural Microinsurance: What Do We Know, What Can We Learn?," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, volume 39, issue 2, pages 264-279, April.
  2. Felix Meier zu Selhausen, 2014, "Missionaries and female empowerment in colonial Uganda: New evidence from Protestant marriage registers, 1880-1945," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 29, issue 1, pages 74-112, June, DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2014.927110.

Chapters

2019

  1. Felix Meier zu Selhausen, 2019, "Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 0, in: David Mitch & Gabriele Cappelli, "Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25417-9_2.

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