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Valentin Seidler

CEU Vienna

Visiting Professor

Quellenstraße 51

Department of Public Policy

A-1100 Wien, 1100

http://https://people.ceu.edu/valentin_seidler

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“  I am currently exploiting a dataset of biographical entries of over 14,000 British colonial officers. I investigate to which extent their biographical details can explain bits of the variation we find in the institutional development of former colonies.  ”

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Why Did Botswana End Up with Good Institutions: The Role of Culture and Colonial Rule.

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Oct 2017
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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Africa, Botswana, institutions

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Colonial Legacy and Institutional Development. The Cases of Botswana and Nigeria

Number of pages: 192 Posted: 22 Dec 2019
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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The Role of Informal Institutions in Building the Institutional Framework of an African State: The Case of the Kanuri in Nigeria

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2019
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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Africa, institutions, development

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Subnational Variations in the Quality of Population Health Data: A Geospatial Analysis of Household Surveys in Africa

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Subnational Variations in the Quality of Population Health Data: A Geospatial Analysis of Household Surveys in Africa

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jul 2023
Valentin Seidler, Chigozie Esdon Utazi, Amelia Finaret, Sebastian Luckeneder, Gregor Zens, Maksym Bondarenko, Abigail Smith, Sarah Bradley, Andrew J. Tatem and Patrick Webb
CEU Vienna, University of Southampton - WorldPop, University of Edinburgh - Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, Vienna University of Economics and Business - Department of Socioeconomics, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), University of Southampton - WorldPop, Allegheny College - Department of Global Health Studies, Independent, University of Southampton - WorldPop and Tufts University
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data quality, household surveys, measurement error, bias, population health surveys, demography, Bayesian analysis

Subnational Variations in the Quality of Population Health Data: A Geospatial Analysis of Household Surveys in Africa

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Feb 2025
Valentin Seidler, Abigail Smith, Sarah Bradley, Gregor Zens, Maksym Bondarenko, Chigozie Esdon Utazi, Sebastian Luckeneder, Patrick Webb and Andrew J. Tatem
CEU Vienna, Allegheny College - Department of Global Health Studies, Independent, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), University of Southampton - WorldPop, University of Southampton - WorldPop, Vienna University of Economics and Business - Department of Socioeconomics, Tufts University and University of Southampton - WorldPop
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Institutional Copying in the 20th Century: The Role of 14,000 British Colonial Officers

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Oct 2017
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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British Colonial Officers, British Colonies, Institutions, Institutional Copying

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Colonial Bureaucrats, Institutional Transplants, and Development in the 20th Century

Seidler V. (2016), ‘Colonial Bureaucrats, Institutional Transplants, and Development in the 20th Century’, Administory. Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, 1: 155-172
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Oct 2017
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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British colonies, bureaucrats, economic development, institutions

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Copying Informal Institutions: The Role of British Colonial Officers During the Decolonization of British Africa.

Journal of Institutional Economics (2017)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Dec 2019
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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British colonies, Africa, governance, human capital, public administration, institutional copying

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Long Live the Nigerian-Fijian Empire: Persistent Effects of Horizontal Institutional Transfer in the Late British Empire

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Valentin Seidler and Robbert Maseland
CEU Vienna and Radboud University
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British Empire, Economic Development, Institutional Transfers, Constitutional Reforms, Economic History

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Overseas Officers and Development Today

The Overseas Officer (2016)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Dec 2019
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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Britih Empire, Colonial Office, Colonial Service, Interviews

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Overseas Officers and Development Today: Project VOICES - An Interim Report

The Overseas Pensioner (2017)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2020
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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British colonies, colonial officers, project VOICES

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Long Live the Nigerian-Fijian Empire! - Persistent Effects of Horizontal Institutional Transfer in the Late British Empire

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Valentin Seidler and Robbert Maseland
CEU Vienna and Radboud University
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British Empire, Economic Development, Institutional Transfers, Constitutional Reforms, Economic History

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Project VOICES - A Status Report after 10 Months

The Overseas Pensioner (2017)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 24 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2020
Valentin Seidler
CEU Vienna
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British Empire, Colonial Office, Colonial Service, Interviews