Felix S.F. Schaff

I am a Sustainable Cooperation (SCOOP) Research Fellow and member of the Economic and Social History Group at Utrecht University. I recently received my PhD from the London School of Economics.  My research explores policy-relevant questions at the intersection of historical economics and political economy. I am particularly interested in the long-run evolution and the causes of wealth and gender inequality in Europe, combining archival data with microeconometric and national accounting methods.

My latest paper "The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany" is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Growth. My article "Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities" recently came out  in The Journal of Economic History (vol. 84, 2, 2024).