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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...
New Researcher Prize: “Why sell oneself into (temporary) slavery?”
27 Apr, 2017
by Alexander Persaud, PhD student, University of Michigan Winner of the New Researcher Prize – Economic History Society 2017 Free...
Donald Trump, an American Original?
25 Apr, 2017
by Prof. Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University Ever since the American election, historians, economists and other assorted pundits have been...
Inching Towards the Meter: Britain, Europe and the Politics of Economic Integration
11 Apr, 2017
by Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) On Brexit day (23 June 2016), The Guardian reminded its readers about the...
Do the rules of the game matter? Monetary regimes and financial stability since 1920
6 Apr, 2017
by German Forero-Laverde (Universidad Externado de Colombia / Universitat de Barcelona) Financial crises come in many shapes and forms....
From losing an empire to leaving Europe: Brexit and the British public relations with the EEC (1961-75)
30 Mar, 2017
by David Thackeray (University of Exeter) On referendum day in June last year, the 52-year old Nigel Farage expressed his...
Brexit, Globalisation and De-Industrialisation
29 Mar, 2017
by Jim Tomlinson (Glasgow University) In seeking to understand the economic basis of the Brexit vote, we should concentrate...
The impact of new universities on regional growth: evidence from the United States 1930-80
21 Mar, 2017
by Alexandra López Cermeño, Lund University / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universities generate growth spillovers beyond simply the...
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