
Weekly Seminar
Date
07.03.2016
Schedule
12:00-13:00 Location
Aula 5, Edificio Amigos Speaker
James Fenske (University of Oxford)
Dust Exposure and Infant Mortality in West Africa
Speaker
James Fenske's research focuses in the role of ecologically-driven gains from trade in the development of pre-colonial states; the high prevalence and rapid disappearance of African polygamy; the role of environmental shocks in the dynamics of the slave trade, and; the adaptation of property rights to trade before colonial rule.