International Society for Quantitative History

QH Webinar Series

An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge

09:00 | Thursday, March 30, 2023

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Joel Mokyr

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University

Charles Darwin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
古進士高產地區 今教育水平較高

古進士高產地區 今教育水平較高

QH Areas of Excellence (AoE) project team member Ting Chen from HKBU Department of Economics told the media how she and her co-authors used economic methodologies to analyze the data of tens of thousands of Jinshi, the highest and final degree in the imperial examination in Imperial China, in the Ming and Qing dynasties. (Media interview in Chinese)
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QH Webinar Series

State Capacity, Security, and Welfare in the Ancient Middle East and China, 12,000 – 400 BCE.

16:00 | Thursday, March 23, 2023

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English

Joerg Baten

Joerg Baten

Chair of Economic History, University of Tübingen

Dead Men Tell Tales, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in The Journal of Economic History goes to our co-director Chicheng Ma

Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in The Journal of Economic History goes to our co-director Chicheng Ma

Co-director Chicheng Ma has recently won the prestigious Arthur H. Cole Prize for his paper "Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits" published in The Journal of Economic History (JEH).
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Symposia

Call for Papers | The Ninth Annual Symposium on Quantitative History

July 15, 2023 - July 16, 2023

Shanghai, China

English and Mandarin

QH Society launches newly redesigned website

QH Society launches newly redesigned website

The QH Society officially launched its new website on September 21, 2022. The redesigned site represents the project team's determined effort to make our online presence the No. 1 go-to place for the global QH community.
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QH Webinar Series

Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand

16:00 | Thursday, March 9, 2023

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English

Christopher Paik

Christopher Paik

Associate Professor of Political Science, New York University Abu Dhabi

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
HKU Business School garners record high UGC funding for research on the “Quantitative History of China”

HKU Business School garners record high UGC funding for research on the “Quantitative History of China”

HK$67.32 million (over US$8.5 million) of University Grant Committee investment into four research clusters on the Quantitative History of China
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QH Webinar Series

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence

10:00 | Thursday, December 8, 2022

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English

Benjamin Enke

Benjamin Enke

Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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