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The long-term negative impact of slavery on economic development in Brazil
13 Jul, 2017
by Andrea Papadia (London School of Economics)   Slavery has been at the centre of many heated debates in...
British engineering skills in the age of steam
11 Jul, 2017
by Harry Kitsikopoulos (academic director, Unbound Prometheus)   Engineering skills in Britain improved during the eighteenth century but progress...
Industrialisation and the origins of modern prosperity: evidence from the United States in the 19th century
29 Jun, 2017
by Ori Katz (Tel Aviv University)   The largest economic mystery is the modern prosperity of humankind. For thousands...
Employment, retirement and pensions: the Victorian era as a golden age for the elderly
27 Jun, 2017
by Tom Heritage (University of Southampton) For far too long, our elderly ancestors have been viewed through the prism of...
Child labour in 18th century England: evidence from the Foundling Hospital
20 Jun, 2017
by Alice Dolan (University of Hertfordshire) Every few years a child labour scandal in the clothing industry hits the...
Trading parliamentary votes for private gain: logrolling in the approval of new railways in 19th century Britain
15 Jun, 2017
by Rui Esteves and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage (University of Oxford) The possibility that politicians might act to further their...
The making of New World individualism and Old World collectivism: international migrants as carriers of cultural values
13 Jun, 2017
by Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (University of Copenhagen)     Although a hotly debated topic, we know surprisingly little...
Mortality in economic downturns: unobserved migration can create the false impression that recessions are good for health
8 Jun, 2017
by Vellore Arthi (University of Essex), Brian Beach (College of William & Mary), and Walker Hanlon (University of California,...
From The NEP-HIS Blog: Fifty Years of Growth in American Consumption, Income, and Wages
25 May, 2017
Fifty Years of Growth in American Consumption, Income, and Wages By Bruce Sacerdote (Darmouth) Abstract: Despite the large increase...
Ottoman stock returns during the Turco-Italian and Balkan Wars of 1910-1914
23 May, 2017
by Avni önder Hanedar (Dokuz Eylül University and Sakarya University, Turkey) and Elmas Yaldız Hanedar (Yeditepe University, Turkey)  ...
Constructing Equality? Women’s wages, physical labor, and demand factors in Sweden 1550-1759
4 May, 2017
by Kathryn E. Gary, PhD candidate, Lund University — Women were important workers in the past, but they are...
Economic History Society
Implicit or unconscious bias in universities
28 Apr, 2017
At the Women’s meeting at the Society Conference a couple of weeks ago Dr Amy L. Erickson, Senior Lecturer...
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