Economic and Environmental History Group

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  RHI Seminar: Pupils today, astronauts tomorrow? The impact of Italy’s 1962 school Reform on human capital accumulation

  09 February 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of February. Our speaker for this month is Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena). He will be presenting his...
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  Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS

  27 February 2023 - Course

Impact stories

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  Unfair Trade? Globalisation, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940

  How did trade and the operations of colonial powers affect economic development and social relations in a region? Pim de Zwart, researcher at the...
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  Shifting patterns of African migration between 1800 and today

  Seeking fortune or fleeing existential threat? Few topics are as politically charged and give rise to discussions as intense as migration. Together...

Highlights

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  Grant for research project: “Unhealthy development: the origins of health inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1960”.

  12 January 2023
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  Sanne Kruikemeier and Ingrid de Zwarte receive Early Career Award

  30 November 2022
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  Vici-grant for Wageningen research on poverty reduction

  14 April 2021
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  Veni grant awarded to Michiel de Haas

  11 April 2022
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  Veni grant awarded to Ingrid de Zwarte

  10 December 2020

News

• 16 September 2022

  Larissa Schulte Nordholt in de media

  - Onze nieuwe collega Larissa Schulte Nordholt is te zien in het programma Nieuwsuur en het programma De Sociëteit
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  18 August 2022

  Ewout Frankema & Michiel de Haas over arbeidsmigratie

  - Maandag 8 augustus is er een opiniestuk van Ewout Frankema en Michiel de Haas(RHI, WUR) over arbeidsmigratie gepubliceerd in de NRC. Michiel de Haas...
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  01 August 2022

  Kate Frederick wins dissertation price

  - At every World Economic History Congress a number of prizes are awarded for the best PhD dissertations.
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  17 May 2022

  WUR to research own colonial history

  - In the coming years, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) will be investigating its own ties with the colonial past of the Netherlands. A yet to...
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  21 December 2021

  Forced labour in nineteenth century Java cost many lives

  - In the nineteenth century, Javanese peasants were forced to work on plantations for low wages. This was an economic success, but at the cost of a...