About the Quantitative History Webinar Series
The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series provides researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to stay up to date with the latest research in the field. It promotes the dissemination of research findings and the interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. Now entering its seventh year, the QH Webinar Series is co-organised by the Centre for Quantitative History at HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History, in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The series is substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. AoE/B-704/22-R).
Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Patrick Fitzsimmons of the University of Pennsylvania will present a theory of how lowering the cost of doing violence around 1200 BCE contributed to political fragmentation across the Eastern Mediterranean.
April 2, 2026
09:00 - 10:30 (HKT)
Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Gregory Clark will demonstrate that strong marital sorting significantly increased the variability of social abilities in pre-industrial England with a genealogical database of 447,000 people in England 1600-2025, as well as 1.7 million marriage records 1837-2021.
A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India
In this Quantitative History Webinar, James Fenske will explore in detail how cultural channels account for only a small part of the link from linguistic diversity to lower migration in India.
Quantitative Analyses of The Religious Book Market in Qing China Based on CRTA Data
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Vincent Goossaert will introduce the nature of CRTA data and present some of the ways in which mapping this corpus can give us new insights about late imperial religious print culture.
清代江蘇士人的家世、仕進與社會流動 Family Background, Official Advancement, and Social Mobility of the Jiangsu Literati in the Qing Dynasty
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Qin Jiang will demonstrate that while the examination system indeed provided avenues for social mobility, the influence of family background was more evident in elevating descendants to higher examination degree.
Spousal Occupations in the Twentieth-century Yangtze Valley
During this Quantitative History Webinar, Ying Dai will explain that the spousal occupations are shaped by both marriage formation and post-marriage occupational decisions in the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley.