
Alexander Persaud
Assistant Professor, Economics
Robins School of Business
University of Richmond
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PhD in economics 2017, University of Michigan
Publications
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• Winner of the 2019 Arthur H. Cole Prize awarded to the best article in The Journal of Economic History
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"Colonial companies and the cost of introducing Indian immigrants into Fiji, 1884-1916." 2023. Asia-Pacific Economic History Review 63 (1), 4-29.
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"Are historical height measurements consistent over time? Evidence from colonial Trinidad." 2023. Explorations in Economic History 90, 101549.
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"Caste criminalisation in south India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903-1927." Forthcoming at the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
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"From sugar to shop: the organic rise of Indian shopkeepers in colonial Trinidad.'' Accepted at the Business History Review.
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Work in progress
"Prices for the Poor: Food Evidence from Tanzania"
With Michael Olabisi
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"Where camponeses feared to tread: Agricultural production and land mine clearance in post-conflict Mozambique"
Paper and slides available on request; with Tyler Belyea
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"Treating text as pictures: OpenCV, feature matching, and parsing historical documents"
Code: Python (in a .zip file) or raw text
Paper and slides available on request
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"Matchmaking gone wrong: Quantifying bias and methods using non-western data"
Paper and slides available on request
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"The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire's Money Orders: Trinidad-India Remittances in the 1880s."
Slides available on request
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"Caste selection and Indian indentureship"
"The re-invention of indentureship in the 19th century as a contract-enforcement mechanism: theory and historical evidence"
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"Foreign/native wage differentials and return migration in Germany"
Paper and slides available on request
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"Do Asian Americans Practice Male-biased Sex Selection? New Evidence from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey and 2010 US Census"
Paper available on request; with Sital Kalantry, Brian Citro, and Arindam Nandi