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Jaime Reis, research professor emeritus of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford and master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; professor at the universities of Glasgow and Leicester, Nova in Lisbon, Carlos III in Madrid, Umea, Jyvaskulla and the European University Institute in Florence; Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon; editor of the European Review of Economic History and the Economic History Review; President of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History; honorary member of the Spanish Association of Economic History; member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon. Most recent works: with Nuno Palma and Lisbeth Rodrigues for “Historical Gender Discrimination does not Explain Comparative Economic Western Development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900”, Explorations in Economic History (2023); with Nuno Palma, ”, Can Autocracy Promote Literacy? Evidence from a Cultural Alignment Success Story”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021).