Jacob Weisdorf is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, a research fellow at the CEPR in London, and a research associate of the CAGE in Warwick. He holds a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and one in Economic History from Lund University. His research interests concern the wider forces that led to the wealth of nations. His studies consider England (the cradle of the industrial revolution), Italy (an industrial runner-up), and sub-Saharan Africa (a still-to-come region). He currently works on projects using historical marriage data from Africa and 600 years of real wages in England.