Péter Földvári
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Péter Földvári |
| GIVEN NAMES | Péter |
| FAMILY NAME | Földvári |
| SIGNATURE | FOLDVARI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4557-8810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Railway expansion and socioeconomic transformation in Hungary, 1880–1910
This paper examines how access to railways influenced several socioeconomic dimensions—such as educational attainment, local revenues, child mortality, tuberculosis-related deaths, and the prevalence of industrial employment—across more than 12,500 Hungarian communities during 1880 and 1910. Using matching and inverse probability weighting estimators to identify causal effects for treated settlements, we uncover positive impacts on literacy rates…
Coin diffusion patterns in the Seleucid Empire
Human Capital in Republican and New China
In recent decades it has been debated whether China’s growth performance is primarily driven by capital accumulation (more inputs) or rather by an increase in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth (better technology and institutions). The answer to this question may offer a glimpse into the future trends of China’s economic growth. If the perspiration factors are dominant, one should expect a slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy in acco…
The Development of Inequality and Poverty in Indonesia, 1932–2008
We estimate inequality in Indonesia between 1932 and 2008. Inequality increased at the start of this period but declined sharply from the 1960s onwards. The increase was due to a shift from domestic to export agriculture over the period up to the Great Depression. During the 1930s, as the price of export crops declined, the income of rich farmers suffered a blow. Yet this was counterbalanced by an increasing gap between expenditures in the urban …
De Facto Versus de Jure Political Institutions in the Long-Run
Economic Mobility in a Colonial and Postcolonial Economy
Despite a consensus about the main factors influencing economic mobility in Indonesia, such as labor-market opportunities and childhood circumstances, virtually nothing is known about how these factors increased economic standing in the colonial and postcolonial periods. The use of height data as a proxy for people's economic situation, however, finds that whereas ethnicity was a strong predictor of economic status before Indonesia's Independence…
Educational and income inequality in Europe, ca. 1870–2000
The Spread of Human Capital in the Former Soviet Union Area in a Comparative Perspective
To date, the rise and fall of the (former) USSR has triggered a lot of research much of which has focussed on the accumulation of physical capital, growth, and consumption. Recently, also the accumulation of human capital has increasingly been incorporated in this picture. However, few datasets exist that cover this crucial variable for this vast area. Therefore, our main objective is to make available a new dataset that contains human capital re…
Indonesian regional welfare development, 1900–1990
What can price volatility tell us about market efficiency? Conditional heteroscedasticity in historical commodity price series
Comparing Per Capita Income in the Hellenistic World
Until quite recently, GDP growth between ca. 1 ce and the late Middle Ages was considered non‐existent or even negative. Recently, largely on account of increasing interest in historical national accounting, the late‐medieval figures have been revised upward, in line with an upward adjustment in the estimated shares of manufacturing and pasture. Leaving GDPs dating from the ancient world unaltered would consequently generate figures indicating in…
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries 1
The role of human capital in economic growth is now largely uncontested. One indicator of human capital frequently used for the pre-1900 period is age heaping, which has been increasingly used to measure gender-specific differences. In this note, we find that in some historical samples, married women heap significantly less than unmarried women. This is still true after correcting for possible selection effects. A possible explanation is that a p…
Estimating Income Inequality from Tax Data with A Priori Assumed Income Distributions in Hungary, 1928-41
The author estimates the Gini coefficients of income inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941, on the basis of official income tax statistics. Because only one point on the Lorenz curve is known, he bases his estimation on the assumption that the income has either log-normal distribution or Pareto distribution. He finds that, assuming log normality is preferable, the estimated Gini coefficients suggest that the Great Depression increased incom…
How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries 1
The role of human capital in economic growth is now largely uncontested. One indicator of human capital frequently used for the pre-1900 period is age heaping, which has been increasingly used to measure gender-specific differences. In this note, we find that in some historical samples, married women heap significantly less than unmarried women. This is still true after correcting for possible selection effects. A possible explanation is that a p…
Comparing Per Capita Income in the Hellenistic World
Until quite recently, GDP growth between ca. 1 ce and the late Middle Ages was considered non‐existent or even negative. Recently, largely on account of increasing interest in historical national accounting, the late‐medieval figures have been revised upward, in line with an upward adjustment in the estimated shares of manufacturing and pasture. Leaving GDPs dating from the ancient world unaltered would consequently generate figures indicating in…
The Spread of Human Capital in the Former Soviet Union Area in a Comparative Perspective
To date, the rise and fall of the (former) USSR has triggered a lot of research much of which has focussed on the accumulation of physical capital, growth, and consumption. Recently, also the accumulation of human capital has increasingly been incorporated in this picture. However, few datasets exist that cover this crucial variable for this vast area. Therefore, our main objective is to make available a new dataset that contains human capital re…
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
De Facto Versus de Jure Political Institutions in the Long-Run
Estimating Income Inequality from Tax Data with A Priori Assumed Income Distributions in Hungary, 1928-41
The author estimates the Gini coefficients of income inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941, on the basis of official income tax statistics. Because only one point on the Lorenz curve is known, he bases his estimation on the assumption that the income has either log-normal distribution or Pareto distribution. He finds that, assuming log normality is preferable, the estimated Gini coefficients suggest that the Great Depression increased incom…
Estimating Income Inequality from Tax Data with A Priori Assumed Income Distributions in Hungary, 1928-41
The author estimates the Gini coefficients of income inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941, on the basis of official income tax statistics. Because only one point on the Lorenz curve is known, he bases his estimation on the assumption that the income has either log-normal distribution or Pareto distribution. He finds that, assuming log normality is preferable, the estimated Gini coefficients suggest that the Great Depression increased incom…
What can price volatility tell us about market efficiency? Conditional heteroscedasticity in historical commodity price series
Comparing Per Capita Income in the Hellenistic World
Until quite recently, GDP growth between ca. 1 ce and the late Middle Ages was considered non‐existent or even negative. Recently, largely on account of increasing interest in historical national accounting, the late‐medieval figures have been revised upward, in line with an upward adjustment in the estimated shares of manufacturing and pasture. Leaving GDPs dating from the ancient world unaltered would consequently generate figures indicating in…
Markets in pre-industrial societies
At least some ancient civilizations used various risk-management strategies to minimize price volatility. In this article, we examine one such strategy, grain storage, by means of a dataset recently made available that provides agricultural prices for Babylonia during the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods (c.400–65 BCE). A comparative analysis of medieval England and Hellenistic Babylonia reveals a low level of inter-annual storage in both …
How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries 1
The role of human capital in economic growth is now largely uncontested. One indicator of human capital frequently used for the pre-1900 period is age heaping, which has been increasingly used to measure gender-specific differences. In this note, we find that in some historical samples, married women heap significantly less than unmarried women. This is still true after correcting for possible selection effects. A possible explanation is that a p…
Indonesian regional welfare development, 1900–1990
Educational and income inequality in Europe, ca. 1870–2000
The Spread of Human Capital in the Former Soviet Union Area in a Comparative Perspective
To date, the rise and fall of the (former) USSR has triggered a lot of research much of which has focussed on the accumulation of physical capital, growth, and consumption. Recently, also the accumulation of human capital has increasingly been incorporated in this picture. However, few datasets exist that cover this crucial variable for this vast area. Therefore, our main objective is to make available a new dataset that contains human capital re…
The Development of Inequality and Poverty in Indonesia, 1932–2008
We estimate inequality in Indonesia between 1932 and 2008. Inequality increased at the start of this period but declined sharply from the 1960s onwards. The increase was due to a shift from domestic to export agriculture over the period up to the Great Depression. During the 1930s, as the price of export crops declined, the income of rich farmers suffered a blow. Yet this was counterbalanced by an increasing gap between expenditures in the urban …
De Facto Versus de Jure Political Institutions in the Long-Run
Economic Mobility in a Colonial and Postcolonial Economy
Despite a consensus about the main factors influencing economic mobility in Indonesia, such as labor-market opportunities and childhood circumstances, virtually nothing is known about how these factors increased economic standing in the colonial and postcolonial periods. The use of height data as a proxy for people's economic situation, however, finds that whereas ethnicity was a strong predictor of economic status before Indonesia's Independence…
Human Capital in Republican and New China
In recent decades it has been debated whether China’s growth performance is primarily driven by capital accumulation (more inputs) or rather by an increase in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth (better technology and institutions). The answer to this question may offer a glimpse into the future trends of China’s economic growth. If the perspiration factors are dominant, one should expect a slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy in acco…
Coin diffusion patterns in the Seleucid Empire
Railway expansion and socioeconomic transformation in Hungary, 1880–1910
This paper examines how access to railways influenced several socioeconomic dimensions—such as educational attainment, local revenues, child mortality, tuberculosis-related deaths, and the prevalence of industrial employment—across more than 12,500 Hungarian communities during 1880 and 1910. Using matching and inverse probability weighting estimators to identify causal effects for treated settlements, we uncover positive impacts on literacy rates…
Economics (12 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works)