Laura Panza

Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds and access to credit

Laura Panza, Ulas Karakoc

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Economic History Review

After experiencing a period of spectacular growth during the late nineteenth century, the Egyptian cotton sector underwent a phase..

From a common empire to colonial rule: Commodity market disintegration in the Near East

Laura Panza

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Political disintegrations have the potential to cause large disturbances in international trade. This column investigates the effe..

The impact of ethnic segregation on schooling outcomes in Mandate Palestine

L Panza

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Development Economics

This paper provides new and comprehensive evidence on the relationship between ethnic segregation and Arab and Jewish human capita..

From a common empire to colonial rule: commodity market disintegration in the Near East

Laura Panza

Report  |  2020

This paper investigates the impact of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire on the integration of regional and colonial commodity m..

Atlantic trade and the decline of conflict in Europe

Reshad Ahsan, Laura Panza, Yong Song

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

While the relationship between trade and war is ambiguous, some argue that diminished trade can pose a threat to global peace by l..

Living costs and living standards: Australian development 1820–1870

L Panza, Jeffrey G Williamson

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Review of Economic History

This paper contributes to the New World living standard leadership debate by comparing the Australian experience during 1820s–1870..

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VICTORIAN SHARE HOUSEHOLDS

Katrina Raynor, Laura Panza

Report  |  2020

Context: While there is emerging evidence of large spikes in housing stress, high unemployment and mental health issues across Aus..

Does social mix reduce stigma in public housing? A comparative analysis of two housing estates in Melbourne

Kate Raynor, Laura Panza, Camilo Ordóñez, Mladen Adamovic, Melissa A Wheeler

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cities

In Australia and many other countries of the Global North, public housing estates are being dismantled and redeveloped to create m..

Australian squatters, convicts, and capitalists: dividing up a fast-growing frontier pie, 1821-71

Laura Panza, Jeffrey G Williamson

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Economic History Review

Compared with its competitors, Australian GDP per worker grew exceptionally quickly from the 1820s to the 1870s, at a rate about t..

The evolution of ottoman-European market linkages, 1469-1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models

Zhuo Li, Laura Panza, Yong Song

Report  |  2019  |  Explorations in Economic History