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Ewout Frankema

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First Name:Ewout
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Last Name:Frankema
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https://www.ewoutfrankema.com/
Terminal Degree:2008 (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(80%) Wageningen Universiteit

http://www.wageningenur.nl/rhi
The Netherlands, Wageningen
P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW, Wageningen

(20%) Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH)
Universiteit Utrecht

Utrecht, Netherlands
http://www.cgeh.nl/
RePEc:edi:cgeuunl (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Frankema, Ewout, 2021. "Why Africa is not that poor," CEPR Discussion Papers 16036, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Frankema, Ewout & van Waijenburg, Marlous, 2021. "Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule," CEPR Discussion Papers 16176, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Frankema, Ewout & van Waijenburg, Marlous, 2019. "The Great Convergence. Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa and Asia, 1870-2010," CEPR Discussion Papers 14150, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  4. Frankema, Ewout & Papaioannou, Kostadis, 2017. "Withdrawn Paper," CEPR Discussion Papers 11795, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Juif, Dacil & Frankema , Ewout, 2016. "From coercion to comppensation: Institutional responses to labour scarcity in teh Central African copperbelt," African Economic History Working Paper 24/2016, African Economic History Network.
  6. Frankema, Ewout & Austin, Gareth & Jerven, Morten, 2016. "Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present," CEPR Discussion Papers 11609, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  7. 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 25/2016, African Economic History Network.
  8. Ewout Frankema & Jeffrey Williamson & Pieter Woltjer, 2015. "An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885," NBER Working Papers 21213, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Bas van Bavel & Ewout Frankema, 2013. "Low Income Inequality, High Wealth Inequality.The Puzzle of the Rhineland Welfare States," Working Papers 0050, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
  10. Frankema, Ewout & Jerven , Morten, 2013. "Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present," African Economic History Working Paper 10/2013, African Economic History Network.
  11. Jerven , Morten & Austin , Gareth & Green, Erik & Uche , Chibuike & Frankema , Ewout & Fourie , Johan & Inikori , Joseph & Moradi , Alexander & Hillbom , Ellen, 2012. "Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources," African Economic History Working Paper 1/2012, African Economic History Network.
  12. Ewout Frankema & Aline Masé, 2012. "An Island Drifting Apart: Why Haiti mires in poverty while the Dominican Republic forges ahead," Working Papers 0027, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
  13. Ewout Frankema, 2011. "The Origins of Formal Education in sub-Saharan Africa - Was British Rule More Benign?," Working Papers 0005, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
  14. Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg, 2011. "African Real Wages in Asian Perspective, 1880-1940," Working Papers 0002, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
  15. Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg, 2011. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965," Working Papers 0024, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History.
  16. Stefan Schirmer & Latika Chaudhary & Metin Cosgel & Jean-Luc Demonsant & Johan Fourie & Ewout Frankema & Giampaolo Garzarelli & John Luiz & Martine Mariotti & Grietjie Verhoef & Se Yan, 2010. "The state and scope of the economic history of developing regions," ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics 2010-517, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics.
  17. Woltjer, P. & Smits, Jan-Pieter & Frankema, Ewout, 2010. "Comparing Productivity in the Netherlands, France, UK and US, ca. 1910:A new PPP benchmark and its implications for changing economic leadership," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-113, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
  18. Frankema, Ewout & Marks, Daan, 2007. "Was It Really “Growth with Equity†under Soeharto? A Theil Analysis of Indonesian Income Inequality, 1961-2002," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-93, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
  19. Frankema, Ewout & Bolt, Jutta, 2006. "Measuring and Analysing Educational Inequality: The Distribution of Grade Enrolment Rates in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-86, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
  20. E.H.P. Frankema, 2005. "The Colonial Origins of Inequality: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Land Distribution," Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers 119, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research.

Articles

  1. Ewout Frankema & Marlous van Waijenburg, 2023. "What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(3), pages 941-978, August.
  2. Frankema, Ewout & Tworek, Heidi, 2020. "Pandemics that changed the world: historical reflections on COVID-19," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 15(3), pages 333-335, November.
  3. Frankema, Ewout & Williamson, Jeffrey & Woltjer, Pieter, 2018. "An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835–1885," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 78(1), pages 231-267, March.
  4. Juif, Dácil & Frankema, Ewout, 2018. "From coercion to compensation: institutional responses to labour scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 14(2), pages 313-343, April.
  5. 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, vol. 71(3), pages 965-994, August.
  6. Angus Dalrymple-smith & Ewout Frankema, 2017. "Slave ship provisioning in the long 18th century. A boost to West African commercial agriculture?," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 21(2), pages 185-235.
  7. Frankema, Ewout & Green, Erik & Hillbom, Ellen, 2016. "Endogenous Processes Of Colonial Settlement. The Success And Failure Of European Settler Farming In Sub-Saharan Africa," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(2), pages 237-265, September.
  8. Frans Buelens & Ewout Frankema, 2016. "Colonial adventures in tropical agriculture: new estimates of returns to investment in the Netherlands Indies, 1919–1938," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 10(2), pages 197-224, may.
  9. Frankema, Ewout, 2015. "The Biogeographic Roots of World Inequality: Animals, Disease, and Human Settlement Patterns in Africa and the Americas Before 1492," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 274-285.
  10. Ewout Frankema, 2015. "Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History: A Review Essay," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 44-67, June.
  11. Ewout Frankema & Morten Jerven, 2014. "Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(4), pages 907-931, November.
  12. Ewout Frankema & Aline Masé, 2014. "An Island Drifting Apart. Why Haiti Is Mired In Poverty While The Dominican Republic Forges Ahead," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(1), pages 128-148, January.
  13. Frankema, Ewout & Waijenburg, Marlous Van, 2012. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 895-926, December.
  14. Ewout H.P. Frankema, 2012. "The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa: was British rule more benign?," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 16(4), pages 335-355, November.
  15. Frankema, Ewout, 2011. "Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880-1940: Maximizing revenue or minimizing effort?," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 136-149, January.
  16. Ewout Frankema, 2010. "The colonial roots of land inequality: geography, factor endowments, or institutions?," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 63(2), pages 418-451, May.
  17. Frankema, Ewout, 2010. "Raising revenue in the British empire, 1870–1940: how ‘extractive’ were colonial taxes?," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(3), pages 447-477, November.
  18. Frankema, Ewout, 2010. "Reconstructing labor income shares in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, 1870-2000," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 28(2), pages 343-374, September.
  19. Ewout Frankema & Daan Marks, 2009. "Was It Really “Growth with Equity” under Soeharto? A Theil Analysis of Indonesian Income Inequality, 1961-2002," Economics and Finance in Indonesia, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, vol. 57, pages 47-77, April.
  20. Frankema, Ewout, 2009. "The Expansion of Mass Education in Twentieth Century Latin America: A Global Comparative Perspective," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(3), pages 359-396, January.
  21. Ewout Frankema, 2008. "Comparing the Distribution of Education Across the Developing World, 1960–2005: What Does the Grade Enrollment Distribution Tell about Latin America?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 88(3), pages 437-455, September.

Books

  1. Frankema,Ewout & Booth,Anne (ed.), 2022. "Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781108714297.
  2. Frankema,Ewout & Booth,Anne (ed.), 2019. "Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781108494267.

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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (8) 2005-11-12 2010-05-08 2010-06-04 2012-01-25 2015-06-05 2015-11-21 2016-11-20 2020-08-17. Author is listed
  2. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (4) 2015-06-05 2015-11-21 2016-11-20 2020-08-17
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (3) 2010-06-04 2015-11-21 2017-01-29
  4. NEP-AFR: Africa (2) 2012-01-25 2015-11-21
  5. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (2) 2010-05-08 2010-06-04
  6. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (2) 2017-01-29 2020-08-17
  7. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2017-01-29
  8. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2010-05-08
  9. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2015-06-05
  10. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2012-01-25
  11. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2013-11-29
  12. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2016-11-20

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