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Working Papers

2012

1. Landed society, farm size and support for public schooling in 19th-century England
   Working Papers, Economic History Society View citations (2)

2010

2. Did high stakes testing policies result in divergence or convergence in educational performance and financing across counties in Victorian England?
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2003

3. Literacy and Mobility in Rural versus Urban Victorian England: Evidence from linked marriage register and census records for Birmingham and Norfolk, 1851 and 1881
   UMBC Economics Department Working Papers, UMBC Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2024

1. Undergraduate Economics Program Enhancements to Increase Doctoral Program Participation by Under-Represented Students
   The American Economist, 2024, 69, (2), 311-316

2019

2. The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. By George R. Boyer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii, 346. $45.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79, (3), 902-904

2016

3. A Year of Transition: Faculty Recruiting at Chicago in 1946
   Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124, (6), 1714 - 1734 View citations (3)
4. Education Matters. Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century. By Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xi, 289. $34.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (4), 1271-1273

2014

5. The Farmer in England, 1650–1980. Edited by Richard W. Hoyle. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2013. Pp. xvi, 358. $144.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (4), 1235-1236

2013

6. What's the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis. Edited by Diane Coyle. London: London Publishing Partnership. 2012. Pp. xx, 197. $27.99, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2013, 73, (3), 898-899

2012

7. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. By Robert C. Allen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 170. $11.95, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (2), 558-560

2009

8. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice in Early America. Edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 266. $42.00, cloth; $24.95, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2009, 69, (4), 1190-1191

2003

9. Système Éducatif et Performances Économiques au Royaume-Uni 19e et 20e Siècles. By Vincent Carpentier. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. Pp. 295. Paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (1), 256-258

2001

10. Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 188. $32.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (4), 1148-1149

1998

11. Economic growth: By Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-I-Martin. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc. 1995. 539 pp. Price: U.S.$76.31 (cloth)
    Economics of Education Review, 1998, 17, (4), 445-445
12. The Power of Boldness. Ten Master Builders of American Industry Tell Their Success Stories. Edited by Elkan Blout. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 214. $29.95, cloth; $18.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (1), 280-282

1997

13. Editorial
    Education Economics, 1997, 5, (3), 203-209

1995

14. Ancient literacy: By. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. pp. xv + 383. $15.95 (paper)
    Economics of Education Review, 1995, 14, (1), 96-96

1991

15. General and Miscellaneous - Understanding Quantitative History. By Loren Haskins and Kirk Jeffrey. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xxv, 366. $27.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (3), 766-767
16. Wealth and Poverty: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sidney Pollard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 256. $29.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (1), 268-268

1989

17. Comparative Economic Systems: Preindustrial & Modern Case Studies. By Manuel Gottlieb. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 382. $39.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (4), 1078-1079

1987

18. Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800. By R. A. Houston. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 325. $44.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (1), 229-230

1986

19. The Impact of Subsidies to Elementary Schooling on Enrolment Rates in Nineteenth-century England
    Economic History Review, 1986, 39, (3), 371-391 View citations (13)

1984

20. Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working Class Autobiography. By David Vincent. London and New York: Methuen, 1982. Pp. ix, 221. $10.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (1), 191-192
21. Underinvestment in Literacy? The Potential Contribution of Government Involvement in Elementary Education to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century England
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (2), 557-566 View citations (14)

1983

22. The Spread of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century England
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (1), 287-288 View citations (24)

1982

23. General and Miscellaneous - Literacy in History: An Interdisciplinary Research Bibliography. By Harvey J. Graff. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 254. New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. Pp. x, 422. $50.00 cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (4), 983-984

1981

24. Elmdon: Continuity and Change in a North-West Essex Village, 1861–1964. By Jean Robin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xxxiv, 269. $34.50. - Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. By Jerry White. Forward by Raphael Samuel. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. xviii, 301. $30.00 cloth, $15.00 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (2), 440-441
25. The Emergence of the Labour Party, 1880–1924. By Roger Moore. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 216. $18.75
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (1), 221-222

1979

26. Dictionary of Labour Biography. Volumes 3 and 4. Edited by Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville. Fairfield, N.J.: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1977. Pp. xix, 236; xix, 236. $37.50 each
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (2), 519-520

1978

27. Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance; The Incorporation of the Nineteenth-Century English Working Class. By Francis Hearn. Contributions in Labor History, no. 3. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. Pp. 309. $17.95. - Conflict or Cooperation? The Growth of Industrial Democracy. By John Elliott. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1978. Pp. xiv, 306. $21.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1978, 38, (4), 1002-1003

Edited books

2019

1. Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education
   Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (8)

2017

2. Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History
   University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press View citations (5)

Chapters

2024

1. The Contributions of Robert Fogel to Cliometrics
   Springer

2022

2. Berthold F. Hoselitz (1913–1995)
   Springer
3. Economic History in Departments of Economics: The Case of the University of Chicago, 1892 to the Present
   Springer

2019

4. Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education—Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (4)
5. Globalization and the Rise of Women’s Literacy and Primary Education in Iran, from 1880 to the Present Day
   Palgrave Macmillan

2010

6. Berthold Frank Hoselitz
   Chapter 5 in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, 2010
7. Chicago and Economic History
   Chapter 8 in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, 2010

2009

8. New Comparative Economic History Cliometrics goes comparativehatton, O’rourke, and Taylor's
   A chapter in A Research Annual, 2009, pp 267-275

2004

9. School Finance
   Chapter 7 in International Handbook on the Economics of Education, 2004 View citations (4)