Journal publications:
de Pleijt, A.M. and E. Frankema (2025). "The Deeper Roots of Human Capital Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia", Journal of Development Economics, 176, 103506.
Baten, J. and A.M. de Pleijt (2022). "Female autonomy generated successful long-term human capital development: Evidence from 16th to 19th century Europe", World Development, 158, 105999.
de Pleijt, A.M. and J.L. van Zanden (2021). “Two Worlds of Female Labour: Gender Wage Inequality in Western Europe, 1300-1800”, Economic History Review, 74(3), 611 - 663.
de Pleijt, A.M., Nuvolari, A. and J.L. Weisdorf (2020). “Human Capital Formation during the First Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Use of Steam Engines”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(2), 829 - 889. [DP] [VOX Blog].
de Pleijt, A.M. (2018). “Human Capital Formation in the Long Run: Evidence from Average Years of Schooling in England, 1300-1900”, Cliometrica, 12(1). [PDF].
de Pleijt, A.M. and J.L. Weisdorf (2017). “Human Capital Formation from Occupations: The ‘Deskilling Hypothesis’ Revisited”, Cliometrica, 11(1). [PDF].
de Pleijt, A.M. and J.L. van Zanden (2016). “Accounting for the ‘Little Divergence’: What Drove Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe, 1300-1800?”, European Review of Economic History, 20(4). [PDF].
Carmichael, S.G., de Pleijt, A.M., van Zanden, J.L. and T. de Moor (2016). “The European Marriage Pattern and its Measurement”, Journal of Economic History, 76(1). [PDF].
Other publications:
de Pleijt, A.M. and J.L. van Zanden (2024). “Pre-industrial Growth”, in: Diebolt, C. and M. Haupert, the Handbook of Cliometrics, 3rd edition.
de Pleijt, A.M. and J.L. van Zanden (2019). “Pre-industrial Growth”, in: Diebolt, C. and M. Haupert, the Handbook of Cliometrics, 2nd edition.
de Pleijt, A.M., van Zanden, J.L. and S.G. Carmichael (2019). “Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses about the Reversal of Fortune in EurAsia”, in: Diebolt, C. (eds.), Cliometrics and the Family: Global Patterns and Their Impact on Diverging Development, Springer. [WP].
Colvin, C.L. and A.M. de Pleijt (2018). “Industrial Revolution and British Exceptionalism”, in: Blum, M. and C.L. Colvin, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan.
de Pleijt, A.M. (2016). The Role of Human Capital Formation in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth, ca. 1300 – 1900, PhD dissertation, Utrecht University.
Carmichael, S.G., de Pleijt, A.M., van Zanden, J.L. and T. de Moor (2015). “Reply to Tracy Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie: The European Marriage Pattern and the Little Divergence”, Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Working Paper No. 70, 2015. [WP].
de Zwart, P., de Pleijt, A.M., Marks, D. and J.L. van Zanden (2014). “Openness and Development: Indonesia in the Long-Run”, in: Schriker, A. and J. Touwen (eds.) Promises and Predicaments. Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia, NUS Press: Singapore.
Policy publications (in Dutch):
de Pleijt, A.M. and J. de Groote (2023). “Gezinsvorming verlaagt het inkomen van de vrouw en verhoogt dat van de man”, Economische Statistische Berichten, 108(4827S), 15 november 2023.
de Pleijt, A.M. en J. de Groote (2022), "Vrouwen minder vaak economisch zelfstandig door verdeling van zorgtaken", Economisch Statistische Berichten, 107(4811), 14 juli 2022.