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Beyond the male breadwinner: family living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850
8 Sep, 2021
by Sara Horrell (London School of Economics), Jane Humphries (University of Oxford), Jacob Weisdorf (Sapienza University of Rome) This...
Credit Risk in Colonial India
1 Sep, 2021
by Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) This blog is based on the author’s article which has been published in the...
Income inequality and famine mortality: evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s
25 Aug, 2021
by Miikka Voutilainen (University of Jyvaskyla) This blog is based on the author’s article which has been published in...
Faith in the Town: Lay Religion, Urbanisation and Industrialisation in England, 1740-1830
30 Jul, 2021
by Kate Gibson (University of Manchester) This blog is based on the author’s presentation to the Economic History Society...
Welfare Cuts and Crime: Evidence from the New Poor Law
27 Jul, 2021
By Eric Melander (University of Namur and CAGE) and Martina Miotto (Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Prague,...
The Sleeping Giant Who Left for America: The Determinants and Impact of Danish Emigration During the Age of Mass Migration
22 Jul, 2021
By Nina Boberg-Fazlic (University of Southern Denmark), Markus Lampe, (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, CEPR), Paul Sharp...
Public Health Shocks and Product Pricing Behavior: Evidence from Life Insurance during the Influenza Pandemic
15 Jul, 2021
This blog is based on the authors presentation to the Economic History Society’s Annual Conference, Academic Session ASIB by...
How private gold mints in 19th century America overcame the market-failure problems imagined by some economists
24 Jun, 2021
by Lawrence H. White (George Mason University)   This blog post is based on a forthcoming article in The...
Rethinking Age Heaping: A Cautionary Tale from XIX Century Italy
22 Jun, 2021
by Brian A’Hearn (Oxford University), Alexia Delfino (London School of Economics), and Alessandro Nuvolari (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)...
Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1793–1851
18 Jun, 2021
by Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière (Institute of Historical Research) This Blog is based on the author’s dissertation which...
Poverty in the Holy Roman Empire: A Long-Run Perspective from 1350 to 1800
9 Jun, 2021
by Victoria Gierok (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)   This blog is based on the author’s poster presented to...
What Rebel Forgiveness in the Mughal state teaches us about state capacity
2 Jun, 2021
This blog is based on the author’s poster presented to the Economic History Society’s annual conference, 2021.  This poster...
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