Stefania Galli
Om Stefania Galli
My research interests lie in the fields of social and economic inequality, institutions and development in Africa and the Caribbean.
My current research delves into long-terms inequality in a Caribbean slave plantation society. The project examines the persistence of wealth over the long-run and across some major institutional breaks, i.e. slave trade abolition and emancipation. The aim of the project is to assess whether slave plantation societies were actually more unequal than settler colonies as often claimed by scholars, despite very little evidence to support the claim.
My PhD dissertation studied the connection between social stratification, ideals and institutions in a black settler colony in the early nineteenth century. The major claim of the dissertation is that institutions, and consequently inequality, are neither the deterministic outcome of factor endowment nor are they the result of the settlement process in itself. Rather, I find that institutions can be heavily shaped by ideals and ideas to a much larger extent than so far argued in the scholarly debate.
I previously dealt with the effect of trade liberalization on GDP growth in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa and on wage compensation or European skilled workers relocating to Africa in the late 18th century.
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Forskningsområden
- Institutions, Colonialism and Slavery
- Social and Economic Inequality
- Gender and Occupational patterns
- Trade and Development
Pågående forskning
- Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean plantation economy, 1750s to 1917, 2019-01 - 2022-12
Undervisningsområden
- Trade and Development
- Global Economic History
- Research Methods and Quantitative Methods
Utvalda publikationer
Marriage patterns in a black Utopia: Evidence from early nineteenth-century colonial Sierra Leone
Galli, Stefania
The History of the Family, 2019
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’: Wages and Migration from Europe to the Gold Coast in the Eighteenth Century
Rönnbäck, Klas, Öberg, Stefan, Galli, Stefania
Journal of Migration History, 5, s. 438-465, 2019
Colonialism and rural inequality in Sierra Leone: an egalitarian experiment
Galli, Stefania, Rönnbäck, Klas
European Review of Economic History, 2019
Land distribution and Inequality in a Black Settler Colony: The case of Sierra Leone, 1792-1831
Galli, Stefania, Rönnbäck, Klas
Economic history review, 2020
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A colonial cash cow: the return on investments in British Malaya,
1889-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, Stefania Galli
Cliometrica - 2021-01-01 -
Land distribution and Inequality in a Black Settler Colony: The case of Sierra Leone,
1792-1831
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
Economic history review - 2021-01-01 -
Colonialism and rural inequality in Sierra Leone: an egalitarian
experiment
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History - 2020-01-01 -
Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth
century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
Swedish Economic History Conferece, Uppsala - 2019-01-01 -
Marriage patterns in a black Utopia: Evidence from early nineteenth-century colonial Sierra
Leone
Stefania Galli
The History of the Family - 2019-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’: Wages and Migration from Europe to the Gold Coast in the Eighteenth
Century
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefan Öberg, Stefania Galli
Journal of Migration History - 2019-01-01 -
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra
Leone
Stefania Galli
- 2019-01-01 -
Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth
century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Historical Economics Society Conferece, Paris - 2019-01-01 -
The occupational structure of a peculiar colony: Sierra Leone in
1831
Stefania Galli
XVIII World Economic History Conference, Boston, USA - 2018-01-01 -
Yes I do – Marriage patterns in a colony in
transition
Stefania Galli
13th African Economic History Conference, 12th-13th October 2018 Bologna - 2018-01-01 -
Land Inequality in an Egalitarian Utopia: the case of Sierra Leone in the early 19th
century
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Economic History Society Conference - 2017-01-01 -
Colonial Institutions and Pre-Industrial Inequality: rural Sierra Leone in 1831, the most equal society of its
time
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli
6th African Economic History Network Meeting - 2016-01-01 -
The occupational structure of a peculiar colony: Sierra Leone in
1831
Stefania Galli
Biennial African Studies Association of the UK Conference, 7-9 September 2016, Cambridge - 2016-01-01 -
Colonial Institutions and Pre-Industrial Inequality: rural Sierra Leone in 1831, the most equal society of its
time
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli
2nd European Society of Historical Demography Conference, 21-24 September 2016, Leuven - 2016-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’ - Compensating Wage Differentials and Epidemiological Risk on the 18th century Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli, Stefan Öberg
10th New Frontiers in African Economic History Workshop, 30-31 October 2015, Wageningen 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’ - Compensating Wage Differentials and Epidemiological Risk on the 18th century Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefan Öberg, Stefania Galli
11th European Historical Economics Society Conference, 4-5 September 2015, Pisa - 2015-01-01