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Working Papers

2023

1. Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: Evidence from rural Swedish probates
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2021

2. Under the Landlord's Thumb. Municipalities and Local Elites in Sweden 1862-1900
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2019

3. Men at work: Real wages from annual and casual labour in southern Sweden 1500–1850
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (2)
4. Mercantilist Inequality: Wealth and Poverty in Stockholm 1650-1750
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2018

5. Peasant Aristocrats? Wealth and Social Status of Swedish Farmer Parliamentarians 1769–1895
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (2)

2017

6. Estimating agricultural production in Scania, 1702–1881: User guide for the Historical Database of Scanian Agriculture and overall results
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (2)
7. The Wealth of the Richest: Inequality and the Nobility in Sweden, 1750–1900
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History

2015

8. Famines in the Nordic countries, AD 536–1875
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History
9. Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1700-1900
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2013

10. The landlord lag: productivity on peasant farms and landlord demesnes, Sweden 1700-1860
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

2011

11. Wagons at work: a transport revolution in the age of agrarian transition in Sweden?
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

2009

12. Land transmission among tenants on noble land – the case of southern Sweden, 1766-1895
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

Journal Articles

2022

1. Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750†
   Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (1), 157-180
2. Monopsony Power and Wages: Evidence from the Introduction of Serfdom in Denmark
   The Economic Journal, 2022, 132, (648), 2835-2872 View citations (3)

2021

3. A land of milk and butter: how elites created the modern Danish dairy industry
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2021, 69, (3), 326-327

2020

4. Men at work. Wages and industriousness in southern Sweden 1500–1850
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2020, 68, (2), 112-128 View citations (4)

2019

5. Unequal poverty and equal industrialisation: Finnish wealth, 1750–1900
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2019, 67, (3), 229-248 View citations (5)

2018

6. Wealth inequality in Sweden, 1750–1900
   Economic History Review, 2018, 71, (3), 772-794 View citations (16)

2017

7. The agricultural revolution and the conditions of the rural poor, southern Sweden, 1750–1860
   Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (2), 483-508 View citations (5)

2016

8. The landlord lag -- productivity on peasant farms and landlord demesnes during the agricultural revolution in Sweden 1700--1860
   Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2016, 64, (1), 55-71 View citations (3)

2012

9. If the landlord so wanted... Family, farm production, and land transfers in the manorial system
   Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (2), 746-769
10. Was the manorial system an efficient insurance institution? Economic stress and demographic response in Sweden, 1749-1859
    European Review of Economic History, 2012, 16, (3), 292-310 View citations (3)

2010

11. Agricultural growth and institutions: Sweden, 1700–1860
    European Review of Economic History, 2010, 14, (2), 275-304 View citations (22)

2006

12. Manorial economy and corvée labour in southern Sweden 1650–1850*
    Economic History Review, 2006, 59, (3), 481-497 View citations (6)