History and Development

The History and Development program uses historical records, modern empirical methods, and computational tools to understand long-run economic change and development. By linking past and present, the program examines how institutions, infrastructure, technology, families, and historical legacies shape growth, inequality, and policy outcomes today.

 

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Highlights

  • Long-run growth, economic development, governance, and institutional change

  • Historical family, household, village, and regional datasets across Asia and beyond 

  • Social mobility, cultural transmission, infrastructure, technology, and state capacity 

  • NLP, OCR, machine learning, archival computation, and large-scale longitudinal data construction 

Research Members

Carol H. SHIUE (Program leader, Visiting Professor, ECON)

Sangyoon PARK (Associate Professor, SOSC)

Rui TANG (Associate Professor, ECON)

Yu-Hsiang LEI (Assistant Professor, SOSC)

Jinlin WEI (Assistant Professor, SOSC)

Wolfgang KELLER (Visiting Professor, ECON)

 

Research Highlights

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