Rebecca Simson

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Some thoughts on Africa's debt crisis of the 1980s - I argue that it wasn't the binding constraint to growth: https://t.co/HKVHrAIvZi

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Can Africa get off the commodity price roller coaster?Some thoughts below. https://t.co/Mknhv7czS7

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

How can we visualise external constraints to growth in Africa? Have fluctuations in commodity prices and capital inflows conditioned growth paths? Some thoughts in the post below. https://t.co/rUrMWVmbhk

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Some thoughts on how to debate the impact of SAPs in Africa (just republished on 'small ideas'): https://t.co/rKogvbX3ye

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

I have launched my very own blog! https://t.co/DsQoE1Gs6P

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

My contribution to the @AfEconHis textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994: https://t.co/lrdoNYcPOo

[Avaaz @Avaaz]

🚨 @Keir_Starmer, we have an urgent agenda item for your discussion with President Trump tomorrow: stop ethnic cleansing in #Sudan.

1 million people in Sudan’s largest camp for displaced persons, mostly women & children, are starving. And many more could die unless YOU do something about it. #Darfur

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Are African elites longstanding, or nouveau riche? In a new @AfEconHis working paper I review some of the debates about- and channels through which elites are reproduced and renewed, in the context of African history.
https://t.co/33YDc6PqCJ

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

@JohanFourieZA @bryan_caplan Interesting! I make a related point in a recent piece on racial wealth (aka housing) inequality in SA: https://t.co/bhmXztrdcD

[The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development @ArthurLewisLab]

Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson (Oxford) is now presenting her paper “Wealth Inequality in Postcolonial Kenya (and South Africa)”. 👇

[LSE Inequalities @LSEInequalities]

How have Black middle class South Africans and Kenyans come to share in the wealth stock of their nations since colonial rule and Apartheid? @rebecca_simson explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

https://t.co/iDudDNEVUG

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

It seemed to me that these notices offered an interesting lens on wealth holding in a postcolonial African setting – as patterns of wealth holding, and the magnitude of wealth stocks, are very poorly mapped for most African countries. This is what eventually emerged.

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Belated advertisement of my recently published paper on the history of wealth inequality in Kenya. A couple of years ago I went down a rabbit hole and started digitizing public notices of inheritances under probate in Kenya.

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

When teaching African economic history, I often need to discourage students from thinking of African development exclusively in terms of AJR’s extractive & inclusive institutions, but this is testament to how inspiring their research has been, and important to the revival of AEH.

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

Fabulous news that the Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded for work of a historical nature again! Congrats to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson.

[Caitlin Barker @CaitlinBarker10]

Another wonderful book review on @hnetafrica! @rebecca_simson reviews "Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past" edited by Johan Fourie.
https://t.co/FSnxV3sD5j

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

The highest share of women estates is found in Nairobi – but what seems to matter more than urbanisation or income level alone, is the degree of property market activity – in places where land and housing is bought and sold, women are more likely to acquire formal property rights

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

I have a new article out that uses an experimental approach to studying gender wealth inequality in Kenya. I collected notices of estates undergoing probate to measure the share of inheritances are left by women, relative to men. https://t.co/eZafCtMjq8

[Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson]

I position this as a glass half full story – women are much less likely to leave estates at death than men, but they are catching up steadily – they account for about a quarter of those leaving estates today, up from well below 10% in the early 1980s.

[Johan Fourie @JohanFourieZA]

Which August #econhist papers did I enjoy the most?

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Authors include: @ydpz, @rebecca_simson, @FranciscaAntman, @guoxu_econ, @EmilySilcock1, @MelissaLDell, @hanna_schwank, @ColesonWeir, @HannesMalmberg1, @PorzioTommaso, @GPrarolo, @todd_schoellman.