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Working Papers

2010

1. How and why does history matter for development policy ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (9)
   Also in Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester (2009) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2011) View citations (17) (2011)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Covid-19 and a state in crisis: what can the UK learn from its own history?
   Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2023, 16, (1), 239-244

2021

2. Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (4), 1087-1095 View citations (3)
3. The pox in Boswell's London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (2), 372-399 View citations (1)

2019

4. Scotland’s Populations from the 1850s to Today
   Population Studies, 2019, 73, (2), 287-290

2018

5. Marx on Population: A Bicentenary Celebration
   Population and Development Review, 2018, 44, (4), 745-769 View citations (1)

2017

6. Rebuttal to Barnes and Guinnane
   Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (3), 1010-1013

2016

7. Labor and World Development Through the Lens of Cotton: A Review Essay
   Population and Development Review, 2016, 42, (2), 359-367 View citations (1)

2015

8. Fertility, social class, gender, and the professional model: statistical explanation and historical significance
   Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (2), 707-722 View citations (3)
9. Wealth, Population, and Inequality: A Review Essay on Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
   Population and Development Review, 2015, 41, (2), 343-354

2012

10. Statistics and the public sphere: numbers and the people in modern Britain, c.1800–2000 – Edited by Tom Crook and Glen O'Hara
    Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (3), 1174-1176

2011

11. How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
    Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47, (1), 70-96 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper How and why does history matter for development policy ?, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2010) View citations (9) (2010)
12. Welfare's forgotten past: a socio‐legal history of the poor law – By Lorie Charlesworth
    Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (4), 1384-1385

2008

13. Gendering the fertility decline in the western world – Edited by Angelique Janssens
    Economic History Review, 2008, 61, (4), 1033-1035
14. J.C. Riley, Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health A History of Twelve Countries, University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, London (2008) ISBN 978-0-520-25286-8 pp. xvi + 229 incl. index
    Economics & Human Biology, 2008, 6, (2), 302-303

2007

15. The Right of Registration: Development, Identity Registration, and Social Security--A Historical Perspective
    World Development, 2007, 35, (1), 67-86 View citations (13)

2003

16. Rethinking McKeown [1] (multiple letters)
    American Journal of Public Health, 2003, 93, (7), 1032-1033
17. The population health approach in historical perspective
    American Journal of Public Health, 2003, 93, (3), 421-431 View citations (9)

2002

18. Rethinking McKeown: The relationship between public health and social change
    American Journal of Public Health, 2002, 92, (5), 722-725 View citations (11)

2000

19. Reproduction, Compositional Demography, and Economic Growth: Family Planning in England Long Before the Fertility Decline
    Population and Development Review, 2000, 26, (1), 45-80 View citations (6)

1998

20. Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate: New Estimates of the Expectation of Life at Birth in Nineteenth-century British Cities
    Economic History Review, 1998, 51, (1), 84-112 View citations (54)

Books

2021

1. After the Virus
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (1)

Edited books

2012

1. Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (9)

2004

2. Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (8)