Abstract. The relationship between gender inequality and occupational segregation is a fascinating puzzle. New microdata on all primary school teachers in

Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown rapidly in recent years. This pap...

The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim...

Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950)​   Gabriele Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Siena, a CEPR Researc...

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens

How can quantitative methods allow historians to make sense of the ever-increasing wealth of digitalised sources, both numeric and textual? How can historians use quantitative and computational method...