Research


Articles

Missionary Legacies of Gender Equality: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 

(with Bastian Becker), European Review of Economic History, 2026. Open Access

The Revival of African Economic History in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Analysis

(with Katharine Frederick and Dacil Juif), Revista de Historia Industrial - Industrial History Review, 33 (92): 11-48, 2024. Open Access

Husbands and Wives:  Power, Peril, and Female Participation in a Ugandan Coffee Cooperative 

(with Carla Canelas Tobar and Erik Stam), Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 31(8): 168-204, 2024. Open Access

The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development 

(with Remi Jedwab and Alexander Moradi), Journal of Economic Growth 27: 149-192, 2022. Open Access

Christianization without Economic Development: Evidence from Ghana 

(with Remi Jedwab and Alexander Moradi), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 190: 573-596, 2021. Open Access

Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan African: A Long-Term Perspective 

(with Joerg Baten, Michiel de Haas and Elisabeth Kempter), Population and Development Review 47(3): 813-849, 2021. Open Access

The Blessings of Medicine? Patient Characteristics and Health Outcomes in a Ugandan Mission Hospital, 1908-1970

(with Shane Doyle and Jacob Weisdorf), Social History of Medicine 33(3): 946–980, 2020.

Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda, 1895-2011

(with Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Jacob Weisdorf), Economic History Review 71(4): 1291-1321, 2018.

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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895–2011

(with Jacob Weisdorf), Economic History Review 69(1): 229-257, 2016.

What determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Feminist Economics 22(1): 130-157, 2016.

Missionaries and Female Empowerment in Colonial Uganda: New Evidence from Protestant Marriage Registers 1880–1945

Economic History of Developing Regions 29(1): 74-112, 2014.


Books

The History of African Development: A Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers 

(edited with Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom and Ushe Kufakurinani), African Economic History Network, 2023. Open Access

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Book Chapters

German Colonialism in Africa and the Pacific, 1884-1914

in  Ewout Frankema and Tirthankar Roy (eds.), Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism, Routledge, 2026.

Urban Migration in East and West Africa: Contrasts and Transformations

in Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema (eds.), Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century, Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration, Routledge, 2022 (pp. 281-308). Open Access

Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa

in David Mitch and Gabriele Cappelli (eds.), Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education, Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 (pp. 25-59).

Growing Cities: Urbanization in Africa

in Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushe Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds.), The History of African Development, African Economic History Network, 2023 (pp. 184-200). Open Access

The Rise of Education in Africa 

(with Sarah Ferber and Johan Fourie), in Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushe Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds.), The History of African Development, African Economic History Network, 2023 (pp. 133-152). Open Access

Mission: Possible – What Church Records can tell us about non-Western societies’ Demographic Past

(with Jacob Weisdorf), in Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Jan Kok, and Hideko Matsuo (eds.), The Future of Historical Demography: Upside Down and Inside Out, Acco Leuven, 2016.


Data Contributions

Georeferenced Data of Christian Mission Stations, Ghana (1752-1932) (with Alexander Moradi and Remi Jedwab), Data in Brief 107445, 2021. Open Access


Book Reviews

Johan Fourie (2021).  Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History. Economic History Review 75: 633-634, 2022.

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Working Papers

Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa (with Jacob Weisdorf), African Economic History Network Working Paper No. 74, 2023.

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PhD Thesis

Women's Empowerment in Uganda: Colonial Roots and Contemporary Efforts, 1894-2012, Doctoral thesis (PhD), Utrecht University (2015), Supervisors: Prof. Jan Luiten van Zanden and Prof. Tine de Moor

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