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SUMMARY:‘I am not now\, that which I have been’: A global-microhistory of Augustine Heard & Company
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/i-am-not-now-that-which-i-have-been-a-global-microhistory-of-augustine-heard-company/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220324T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220324T140000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T004833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103317Z
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SUMMARY:U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/u-turn-to-the-future-sustainable-urban-mobility-since-1850/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220322T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220322T133000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
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SUMMARY:Cabo Verde-China Relations: How Can a Small State Navigate between Great Powers
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/cabo-verde-china-relations-how-can-a-small-state-navigate-between-great-powers/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220318T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220318T163000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T011919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103318Z
UID:84113-1647621000-1647621000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai Through Indian Trading Networks
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/funny-money-circulation-and-fabric-exports-from-china-to-dubai-through-indian-trading-networks/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220308T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220308T133000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T012335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103318Z
UID:84120-1646742600-1646746200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Centralising Africa — The Importance of Decolonising
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/centralising-africa-the-importance-of-decolonising/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T012707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z
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SUMMARY:Green Gold and Paper Gold: Financing the Chinese-American Tea Trade before the Opium War
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/green-gold-and-paper-gold-financing-the-chinese-american-tea-trade-before-the-opium-war/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220225T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220225T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T015826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z
UID:84134-1645783200-1645783200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Old Roads\, Religious Mobility\, and Paradigms of Long-Distance Transmission — Epigraphic and Petroglyphic Complexes in a Transit Zone between Eurasian Frontiers
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/old-roads-religious-mobility-and-paradigms-of-long-distance-transmission-epigraphic-and-petroglyphic-complexes-in-a-transit-zone-between-eurasian-frontiers/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220224T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220224T173000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T020515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z
UID:84141-1645723800-1645723800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Sailing from Canton to Macao: A Map of the Waterways between the Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/sailing-from-canton-to-macao-a-map-of-the-waterways-between-the-two-cities/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T021101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z
UID:84151-1643965200-1643968800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/middling-elites-middle-managers-and-bank-professionals-at-the-shanghai-bank-of-china-on-the-eve-of-the-communist-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220126T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220126T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240614T021648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103320Z
UID:84159-1643202000-1643202000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Hidden Treasures of the Silk Road — An Ontological Shift in Thinking of Things
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/hidden-treasures-of-the-silk-road-an-ontological-shift-in-thinking-of-things/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211215T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211215T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240616T174756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103320Z
UID:84166-1639573200-1639573200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:New Visions for the New Globality: China’s BRI vs. Russia’s Greater Eurasian Space
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/new-visions-for-the-new-globality-chinas-bri-vs-russias-greater-eurasian-space/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/brinfaith-lecture-by-professor-alexey-maslov-20211215-1080.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240616T181123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103320Z
UID:84173-1639126800-1639130400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:An American Salesman in China: Local Markets\, Global Business\, and Competition in Marketing Cigarettes during the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/an-american-salesman-in-china-local-markets-global-business-and-competition-in-marketing-cigarettes-during-the-1920s/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211209T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211209T140000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240616T181506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103321Z
UID:84180-1639053000-1639058400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Cross-border Integration from a Geographical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/cross-border-integration-from-a-geographical-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211202T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211202T170000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240616T182810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103321Z
UID:84190-1638464400-1638464400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Before Localization: The Story of the Electric Rice Cooker in South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/before-localization-the-story-of-the-electric-rice-cooker-in-south-korea/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211130T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211130T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240616T183434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103321Z
UID:84198-1638273600-1638277200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Military Bounties in Early Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/military-bounties-in-early-imperial-china/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211125T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211126T210000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T182604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103323Z
UID:85414-1637874000-1637960400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Chaozhou\, Canton\, and Hong Kong: The Rise and Fall of Chaozhou Pewter Workshops in Qing China
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chaozhou-canton-and-hong-kong-the-rise-and-fall-of-chaozhou-pewter-workshops-in-qing-china-2/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211122T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211122T183000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T183454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103323Z
UID:85424-1637605800-1637605800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Reflecting on Maritime Transportation as the Sinew of Commerce and Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reflecting-on-maritime-transportation-as-the-sinew-of-commerce-and-conflict/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211116T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211116T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T184027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103324Z
UID:85432-1637064000-1637067600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Crane Diplomacy: Auspicious Gifts of a Species on the Brink of Extinction
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/crane-diplomacy-auspicious-gifts-of-a-species-on-the-brink-of-extinction/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T184519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103324Z
UID:85440-1636707600-1636711200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:‘Scientific’ Management in Republican Shanghai: American-Returned Students and the Concept of Efficiency
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/scientific-management-in-republican-shanghai-american-returned-students-and-the-concept-of-efficiency/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211104T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211104T163000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T190342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z
UID:85448-1636043400-1636043400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Situating Space through Verse: A Study of the Ten Verses of Hà Tiên by Mo Tianci (Mạc Thiên Tứ)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/situating-space-through-verse-a-study-of-the-ten-verses-of-ha-tien-by-mo-tianci-mac-thien-tu/
CATEGORIES:Others
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211102T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211102T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T192554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z
UID:85455-1635854400-1635858000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationalism: Heterodoxy and Patriotism in Indian Guru Worship in China
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/crafting-utopias-for-spiritual-nationalism-heterodoxy-and-patriotism-in-indian-guru-worship-in-china/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T214805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z
UID:85533-1635498000-1635501600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/maos-third-front-the-militarization-of-cold-war-china/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211021T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211021T163000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T215754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z
UID:85540-1634833800-1634833800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Pearl River Delta Migration and the Changing Resource Frontier in the Australasia Colonies
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/pearl-river-delta-migration-and-the-changing-resource-frontier-in-the-australasia-colonies/
CATEGORIES:Others
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211019T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211019T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T220128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z
UID:85547-1634644800-1634648400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Extralegal Governance: Private Orderings in China’s Illegal Markets
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/extralegal-governance-private-orderings-in-chinas-illegal-markets/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T220602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z
UID:85556-1634288400-1634292000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-sustaining-the-market/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211004T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211004T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T221032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z
UID:85563-1633352400-1633352400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Infrastructure and Connectivity across the Karakoram-Pamir Watershed\, since 1918
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/infrastructure-and-connectivity-across-the-karakoram-pamir-watershed-since-1918/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-dr-hasan-h-karrar-20211004_1920x1080.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210930T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210930T163000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T221534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z
UID:85573-1633019400-1633019400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Global Networks of Malaria: Tropical Medicine in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/global-networks-of-malaria-tropical-medicine-in-modern-china/
CATEGORIES:Others
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T100000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T221935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z
UID:85580-1632474000-1632477600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/unending-capitalism-how-consumerism-negated-chinas-communist-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210923T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210923T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T222726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z
UID:85588-1632402000-1632402000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:History Written in Advance: The Temporal Politics of Learning Mandarin for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Zambia
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/history-written-in-advance-the-temporal-politics-of-learning-mandarin-for-jehovahs-witnesses-in-zambia/
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-mr-justin-haruyama-20210923_1920x1080.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210921T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210921T130000
DTSTAMP:20261108T191955
CREATED:20240722T224023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103328Z
UID:85597-1632225600-1632229200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:“Reason’s Sympathy”: Kant’s Novel Account of Sympathy and Its 18th Century Precedents
DESCRIPTION:Title: Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy Speaker: Felix Schaff (Max Weber Fellow\, Department of Economics\, European University Institute) Date/Time: February 20\, 2025 16:00 – 17:3009:00 Florence | 16:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 03:00 (New York) | 00:00 (Los Angeles) | 08:00 (London) | 17:00 (Tokyo) | 19:00 (Sydney) Venue: Via Zoom Language: English Enquiry: cqhmail@hku.hk Register Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817326069296/WN_269qJz9qRKu7fVOD6dl1pg#/registration 								\n				\n				\n				\n									Description How do inheritance institutions affect wealth inequality in a pre-modern economy? Felix Schaff of the European University Institute and his co-author address this question by exploiting a sharp border between partible and impartible inheritance areas in southwest Germany\, together with household-level data from the registers of the 1545 Turk Tax. They find that partible inheritance — the practice of dividing parents’ wealth at death equally among all offspring — substantially increased wealth inequality. This result reflects a three-part mechanism\, working through the family\, the land market\, and the structure of the economy. First\, partibility allows more poor people to marry and form households\, because of the expectation under the European Marriage Pattern that married couples will support themselves independently. Under impartibility\, by contrast\, non-inheriting offspring remain unmarried or emigrate\, reducing the number of poor households locally. Second\, partibility fragments land\, generating a large group of land-poor and landless households at the bottom and a re-concentration in the hands of large landowners at the top. Third\, land fragmentation in partible areas induces people to undertake risky non-agricultural by-employments\, increasing their vulnerability to economic shocks and their incentive to sell land to survive crises. In this Quantitative History webinar\, Felix Schaff will explain how the seemingly egalitarian institution of partible inheritance can counterintuitively increase broader inequality in pre-modern context.Felix Schaff’s co-author: Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College\, University of Oxford) Discussant: Jinlin Wei\, Assistant Professor of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   About the Quantitative History Webinar Series The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers\, teachers\, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field\, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series\, now entering its fifth year\, is co-organized by the Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region\, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。 Conveners: Professors Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reasons-sympathy-kants-novel-account-of-sympathy-and-its-18th-century-precedents/
CATEGORIES:IHSS
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