Laura Panza

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..

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..

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  |  2020  |  Economic History Review: a journal of economic and social history

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

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

The evolution of Ottoman–European market linkages, 1469–1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models

L Panza, Zhuo Li, Yong Song

Journal article  |  2019  |  Explorations in Economic History

This paper exploits data on a set of traded goods to undertake the first comprehensive empirical analysis of market integration be..

Hidden in Plain Sight: Correspondent Banking in the 1930s

L Panza, D Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Business History

We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected..

Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica

T Burnard, L Panza, J Williamson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Explorations in Economic History

This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of colonial Jamaican real incomes and income inequality. We collect local pr..

The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901-1930

Laura Panza, Simon Ville, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2018  |  Business History

Income Inequality and Conflict Intensification in Mandate Palestine

L Panza, S Eik Leong

Report  |  2017

We examine the effect of income inequality on Arab-Jew conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine. Using archival, primary, and..

The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

L Panza, T Burnard, JG Williamson

Report  |  2017

This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this p..

The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871

Book Chapter  |  2017

Australian Exceptionalism? Inequality and Living Standards 1821-1871

L PANZA, J Williamson

Report  |  2017

Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871

L PANZA, J Williamson

Report  |  2017

Good geography, good institutions? Historical evidence from nineteenth-century British colonies

Eik Leong Swee, Laura Panza

Journal article  |  2016  |  European Economic Review

Egyptian and Syrian commodity markets after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire: A Bayesian structural VECM analysis

L PANZA, T Wozniak

Report  |  2015

The disruption of the Ottoman Empire caused dramatic changes to the economic and political structure of the Middle East. The newly..

Did Muhammad Ali foster industrialization in early nineteenth-century Egypt?

Laura Panza, Jeffrey G Williamson

Journal article  |  2015  |  The Economic History Review

De-industrialization and re-industrialization in the Middle East: reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and in the Izmir region

Laura Panza

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Economic History Review

Did the world settle its debts through the branches of multinational banks? Evidence from the 1930s

L Panza, DT Merrett

Report  |  2014

Globalization and the Near East: A Study of Cotton Market Integration in Egypt and Western Anatolia

Laura Panza

Journal article  |  2013  |  The Journal of Economic History

Did Muhammad Ali Foster Industrialization in Early 19th Century Egypt?

L Panza, J Williamson

Report  |  2013  |  Economic History Review: a journal of economic and social history

Book review of Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov

L Panza

Journal article  |  2012  |  The Economic Record

Will India be the next China? Challenges, prospects and implications for Australia

S Jayasuriya, L Panza

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australian Economic Review

Good Geography, Good Institutions? Historical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century British Colonies

Eik Leong Swee, Laura Panza

Report