Program

Session 1 (13:30h-15:00h)

Numeracy, Nutrition and Schooling Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa – 1950 to 2000

Sarah Ferber (Tübingen University) and Jörg Baten (Tübingen University, CEPR and CESifo)

The impact of copper mining activities on education in Zambia from a long-term perspective

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Laura Maravall (Universidad de Alcalá)

Break (15:00h-15:30h)

Session 2 (15:30h-17:00h)

A Revolution before the Revolution? Liberal reforms and human capital accumulation of Bolivian indigenous population, 1880-1950

José Peres Cajias (Universitat de Barcelona) and Liliana Serrate Mendia (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo)

Unpacking the African mission: the evolution of educational gender gaps in colonial Mozambique

Pablo Fernández-Cebrián (Wageningen University)

Coffee break (17:00h-17:30h)

Session 3 (17:30h-19:00h)

Unification of Education and Language Mismatch in Early Turkish Republic

Alpay Filiztekin (Sabanci University)

Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish Language in the 19th century

Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast), Chris L. Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast) and Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt)

Workshop dinner (20:30h-)

Venue TBA

Session 4 (9:30h-11:00h)

Educational Inequalities in Colombia: Evidence on the Role of Land Tenure and Resource Allocation in Education

Irina España-Eljaiek (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Germán Tabares (Universidad EAFIT) and Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora (Universidad EAFIT)

Age heaping and consistency in Catalonia during the 19th and 20th centuries

Mari Carmen Pérez Artés (University of Almería) and Joana María Pujadas-Mora (Open University of Catalonia & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Coffee break (11:00h-11:30h)

Session 5 (11:30h-13:45h)

The Educational Revolution and the Industrial Revolution: How schooling transformed the economy of early modern England

Alexandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University) and Julius Koschnick (London School of Economics)

Self-government and education: evidence from a historical quasi-experiment in Italy

Vitantonio Mariella (University of Bergamo), Michele Postigliola (Sapienza University of Rome) and Mauro Rota (Sapienza University of Rome)

The Historical Gender Gap in Education: The Spread and Growth of Girls’ Schools in Sweden, 1850-1928

Joris Kok (International Institute of Social History), Tobias Karlsson (Lund University) and Faustine Perrin (Lund University)

Lunch (13:45h-15:15h)

Session 6 (15:15h-16:45h)

Human capital and property in Northern Spain, 1850-1920

Adrián Palacios-Mateo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

The Political Economics of Secular and Religious Schooling in Late Imperial Russia

Steven Nafziger (Williams College) and Viktor Malein (Lund University)