Dipl.-Vw. Valeria Prayon

Wissenschaftliche Angestellte/ Assistant
IEHA Office Manager
Mohlstraße 36, Room 419
72074 Tübingen

Phone: +49 - (0)7071 - 29 - 78 161
Fax: +49 - (0)7071 - 29 - 51 19
E-Mail: valeria.prayon(at)uni-tuebingen.de

Office Hours

  • on appointment

Research Interests

  • Long-term human capital formation in today's least developed countries
  • Colonial legacy debate
  • Gender differences in education

Working Papers

  • Human Capital, Institutions, Settler Human Capital, and Economic Growth in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, 1750-2000
    (with Joerg Baten)
  • Human Capital Development in Africa since the late 19th Century – New Estimates
  • Women Count. Gender (In-)Equalities in the Human Capital Development in Asia, 1900-1960
    (with Joerg Baten and Julia Friesen)
  • A Case Study on Lacking Basic Human Capital Today: Bangladesh

Presentations at Conferences

  • August 3-7, 2009
    World Economic History Congress 2009, Utrecht
  • September 4-5, 2009
    Eighth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Geneva
  • May 19-21, 2010
    Asian Historical Economics Conference, Beijing
  • August 28-29, 2010
    International Workshop on Human Capital in Economic History, Tuebingen (Co-Organizer)
  • November 24-26, 2010
    ERSA/FRESH Conference on "Lessons from History for Development", Stellenbosch/South Africa
  • February 16, 2012
    Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford
  • March 28, 2012
    PhD Seminar in Economic History, University of Barcelona