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Erik Green . Photo

Erik Green

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Erik Green . Photo

Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Author

  • Johan Fourie
  • Erik Green

Summary, in English

To study the intergenerational dynamics of productivity, social mobility and demographic change of any contemporary society is a challenge. To do this for a pre-industrial society at the southern tip of Africa seems almost impossible. Yet this is the purpose of the Cape of Good Hope Panel, an annual panel data set–still under construction–of Cape Colony settler tax records over almost two centuries. The transcription of this ambitious project is now in its fourth year. Here we describe the history of the project, the transcription process, and present some preliminary results.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History

Publishing year

2018-08-21

Language

English

Pages

493-502

Publication/Series

History of the Family

Volume

23

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Economic Geography

Keywords

  • Africa
  • Big data
  • colonialism
  • institutions
  • longitudinal
  • settler
  • VOC

Status

Published

Project

  • The Cape of the Good Hope Panel: Long-term studies of growth, inequality and labour coercion in the global south

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1081-602X