Dr Bas van Leeuwen, LL.M




Bas van Leeuwen

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Address:
Economics Department
Warwick University
CV4 7AL Coventry, UK

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Bas van Leeuwen

Bas van Leeuwen



Last updated 20 August 2010: New paper added: 'Educational inequality in Europe, 1870-2000'.

Forthcoming papers:
- 'Height inequality in Indonesia in the twentieth century,' (with Péter Földvári).
- 'Human capital and economic growth in Europe, ca. 1850-2000 ,' (with Péter Földvári).
- 'Returns to Schooling in an economy with a rapidly changing educational stratification: The case of Indonesia,' (with Wolter Hassink).
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'Silver, debasement, and inflation in Babylonia,' (with Péter Földvári).
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'The evolution of market related institutions in Babylonia in a regional perspective,' (with Péter Földvári).
- 'Regional market integration in Qing China,' (with Péter Földvári).



Profile

Born in 1978, studied Dutch Law, European Law, Economic History, and Russian History at the University of Utrecht. MA-theses about the economic influences on the Polish politics in the 1960s and 1970s (De doorwerking van de economische situatie op de Poolse maatschappelijke verhoudingen) and the dynamics of the Dutch 'Poldermodel' (Corporatisme en Deregulering: dualisme als oplossing voor de 'crisis van de welvaartsstaat').
From 2001 to 2006 worked on a phD-project on human capital formation and the standard of living in South-East Asia in the twentieth century.This project, which focussed on the effect of formal and informal education on economic growth and the institutional problems developing countries encounter in the field of education, resulted in a thesis titled "Human Capital and Economic Growth in India, Indonesia and Japan: A quantitative analysis, 1890-2000".
Is involved in the project Indonesian Economic Development.
Is also working on the reconstruction of the English (1300-1850) and Dutch (1500-1800) national accounts at the Economics Department, University of Warwick.
Is also working on the estimation of Babylonean price volatility (ca. (400-150 BC) at the Faculty of Letters, Free University.
Is working on the construction and maintenance of the Data hub "Human Capital".
Main fields of interest are price volatility, human capital and national accounting from the 500 BC to the twentieth century.

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