Overview
My primary field of research is economic history, but I have interests in urban economics, economic growth, and political economy
My research to date is on several topics
Research on Transport and the English Industrial Revolution
Grants
Papers under review
Working papers
Decriptions of new datasets
Working Papers
- Turnpikes, canals, and economic growth in England and Wales, 1800-1850
Dan Bogart, Max Satchell, Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, Xuesheng You, Leigh Shaw Taylor
- Transport networks and the adoption of steam engines in England and Wales, 1761-1800
Dan Bogart, Sean Bottomley, Max Satchell, Leigh Shaw Taylor
Published Papers
- Government, trusts, and the making of better roads in early nineteenth century England and Wales
Alan Rosevear, Dan Bogart, Leigh Shaw Taylor, forthcoming European Economic History Review
- Organizations and efficiency in public services: The case of English lighthouses revisited
Oliver Dunn, Dan Bogart, Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, Leigh Shaw Taylor, published in Economic Inquiry
- Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales
Dan Bogart, Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, Xuesheng You, Max Satchell, Leigh Shaw Taylor, published in Journal of Urban Economics
- Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the age of sail
Dan Bogart, Oliver Dunn, Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, Leigh Shaw Taylor, published in Economic History Review
- The spatial patterns of coaching in England and Wales from 1681 to 1836: a GIS approach
Alan Rosevear, Dan Bogart, Leigh Shaw Taylor, published in Journal of Transport History
- Canal carriers and creative destruction in England's transport sector
Dan Bogart, Michael Lefors, and Max Satchell, published in Explorations in Economic History
- Investing in Early Public Works: Financial risks and returns in English and Welsh turnpikes 1820-1882
Dan Bogart, published in Economic History Review
- When do toll roads pay? Local conditions and the financial returns to English turnpike roads
Dan Bogart, forthcoming in Le financement des infrastructures de transport XVIIe-début XIXe siècle, edited by Anne Conchon, David Plouviez, Eric Szulman, Paris, IGPDE-Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2018.
- The Transport Revolution in Industrializing Britain: A Survey
Dan Bogart, in the Cambridge Economic History of Britain 1700 to 1870, third edition, edited by Roderick Floud and Jane Humphries, 2014
- Inter-modal Network Externalities and Transport Development: Evidence from Roads, Canals, and Ports during the English Industrial Revolution
Dan Bogart, in Networks and Spatial Economics 9 (2009), 309-338
- Turnpike Trusts and Property Income: New Evidence on the effects of Transport Improvements and Legislation in Eighteenth Century England
Dan Bogart, in The Economic History Review 62 (2009), 128-152
- Neighbors, Networks, and the Development of Transport Systems: Explaining the Diffusion of Turnpike Trusts in Eighteenth Century England
Dan Bogart, in Journal of Urban Economics 61 (March 2007), 238-362
- Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th century England
Dan Bogart, in Explorations in Economic History 42 (2005): 479-508
- Did Turnpike Trusts Increase Transportation Investment in Eighteenth-Century England?
Dan Bogart, in Journal of Economic History 65 (2005): 439-468
Online Historical Atlas articles
- The Turnpike Roads of England and Wales
Dan Bogart, in The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911. Eds. L. Shaw-Taylor, D. Bogart and A.E.M. Satchell, 2017.
- The development of the railway network in Britain 1825-1911
Dan Bogart, Xuesheng You, and Leigh Shaw Taylor, in The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911. Eds. L. Shaw-Taylor, D. Bogart and A.E.M. Satchell, 2017.
Shorter Published Papers
Research on politics, institutions, and development in England
Working Papers
Published Papers
- Party connections, interest groups, and the slow diffusion of infrastructure: Evidence from Britains first transport revolution
Dan Bogart, The Economic Journal, 128 (March 2018), 541–575.
- The East Indian Monopoly and the Transition from Limited Access in England, 1600-1813
Dan Bogart in Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John J. Wallis, University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Political Party Representation and Electoral Politics in England and Wales, 1690-1747
Dan Bogart, in Social Science History, Vol. 40, Number 2, Summer 2016, pp. 271-303
- Did the Glorious Revolution Contribute to the Transport Revolution? Evidence from Investment in Roads and Rivers
Dan Bogart, Economic History Review 64 (November 2011), 1073-1112.
- Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson, Journal of Law & Economics 54 (May 2011), 241-274.
- Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution: Early Corporations in the U.K. and the United States (Joint with John Majewski) )
Dan Bogart and John Majewski, in Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy, edited by Dora Costa and Naomi Lamoreaux, University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.
- British Legal Institutions and Transaction Costs in the Early Transport Revolution
Dan Bogart, in Law and Long-Term Economic Change, Eds. Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden, Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History
Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson, in Research in Economic History 27: (2010), 1-50.
- Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830.
Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson, in European Review of Economic History 13 (April 2009), 3-30.
Data sets and do files
Comparative research on railways in the nineteenth century
Papers Under Review
Published Papers
- The Growth Contribution of Colonial Indian Railways in Comparative Perspective
Dan Bogart, Latika Chaudhary, and Alfonso Herranz Loncan, Forthcoming in Economic History Review
- Extractive Institutions? Investor returns to Indian railway companies in the Age of High Imperialism
Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary, Journal of Institutional Economics, 15 (2019): 751-774.
- Off the Rails: Is State Ownership Bad for Productivity?
Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary in Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 43, Issue 4, November 2015, pp: 997-1013.
- Railways in Colonial India: An Economic Achievement?
Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary, in A New economic history of colonial India, edited by Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Tirthankar Roy, and Anand Swamy, Routledge Press, 2016.
- Engines of Growth: The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874-1912
Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary in Journal of Economic History, 73 (2013), 339-370.
- Regulation, Ownership and Costs: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2011), 28-57.
- A Global Perspective on Railway Inefficiency and the Rise of State Ownership, 1880-1912
Dan Bogart in Explorations in Economic History 47 (April 2010), 158-178.
- Nationalizations and the Development of Transport Systems: Cross-Country Evidence from Railroad Networks, 1860-1912.
Dan Bogart in Journal of Economic History 69 (March 2009) 202-237.
Surveys on the history of transportation and economies
Published Papers
- Infrastructure and institutions: lessons from history
Dan Bogart, forthcoming in a special issue on Urban Economics and History at Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Clio on speed: A survey of economic history research on transport
Dan Bogart, in the Handbook of Cliometrics, edited by Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert, forthcoming
- The Transport Revolution in Industrializing Britain: A Survey
Dan Bogart, in the Cambridge Economic History of Britain 1700 to 1870, third edition, edited by Roderick Floud and Jane Humphries, 2014
- The Economic History of Transportation
Dan Bogart, in Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History, edited by Robert Whaples and Randall E. Parker, Routledge, 2013.
- State and Private Institutions
Dan Bogart, Mauricio Drelichman, Oscar Gelderblom, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, in Unifying the European Experience: An Economic History of Modern Europe. Eds. Stephen Broadberry and Kevin ORourke, Cambridge University Press, 2009.