I am an Assistant Professor in Economic History at Wageningen University and research affiliate at the UK Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
My research agenda centres on a deeper understanding of why unprecedented economic growth has coexisted with persistent welfare inequalities in Europe, and colonial contexts. To this aim, I combine approaches from economic and social history and historical demography with political economy theories.
My projects investigate how the historical interaction between economic inequality and uneven access to important public goods—health, housing, and education—has shaped improvements and changes in livelihood security over the long run, including in the face of epidemics. Currently, he is writing a book for Cambridge University Press on the welfare effects of 19th-century epidemics in Europe, with a focus on cholera.
Long-Run Health Matters portal: access the research summaries published by between 2021 and 2023 here.
You can contact me at: daniel.gallardoalbarran [at] wur.nl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-5046; Google Scholar (profile)
