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Working Papers

2025

1. Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2025) View citations (2) (2025)
2. Predictive modeling the past
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
3. Smithian growth in Britain before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
4. Structural Change, Work Tasks and Urbanization in Early Modern England
   Working Papers, Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge

2024

5. Trust, guilds and kinship in London, 1330-1680
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2022)

2023

6. Job tenure and unskilled workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2022)
   See also Journal Article Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

7. Unskilled labour before the Industrial Revolution
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2019

8. Access to the trade: monopoly and mobility in European craft guilds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
9. The extent of citizenship in pre-industrial England, Germany, and the low countries
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The extent of citizenship in pre-industrial England, Germany, and the Low Countries, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2020) (2020)

2018

10. Access to the trade: monopoly and mobility in European craft guilds, 17th and 18th centuries
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
11. Guilds and mutual protection in England
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
12. Guilds in the transition to modernity: the cases of Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (3)
13. Structural change and economic growth in the British economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (25)
    See also Journal Article Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2018) View citations (24) (2018)

2017

14. Failure or flexibility? Apprenticeship training in premodern Europe
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2016

15. Failure or flexibility? exits from apprenticeship training in pre-modern Europe
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
16. Introduction: the growth of the early modern medical economy
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
17. Puncturing the Malthus delusion: structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2014

18. Medical revolutions? The growth of medicine in England, 1660-1800
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
19. Should we call for a doctor? Households, consumption and the development of medical care in the Netherlands, 1650-1900
    Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History

2013

20. Picking Winners? The Effect of Birth Order and Migration on Parental Human Capital Investments in Pre-Modern England
    Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article Picking winners? The effect of birth order and migration on parental human capital investments in pre-modern England, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2013) View citations (12) (2013)

2012

21. Family Investment Strategies in Pre-modern Societies: Human Capital, Migration, and Birth Order in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES)

2011

22. Labour, law and training in early modern London: apprenticeship and the city’s institutions
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
23. Why did (pre‐industrial) firms train?: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2010

24. Exotic drugs and English medicine: England’s drug trade, c.1550-c.1800
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2009

25. Leaving home and entering service: the age of apprenticeship in early modern London
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
26. Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (4)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2009) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Networks in the Premodern Economy: The Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600–1749, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2011) View citations (27) (2011)
27. Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in early modern Europe
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
28. The education and training of gentry sons in early-modern England
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2007

29. Apprenticeship and training in premodern England
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
    See also Journal Article Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2008) View citations (39) (2008)

2005

30. Apprenticeship, training and guilds in pre-industrial Europe
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

Journal Articles

2025

1. Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice. Eds Anna Bellavitis and Valentina Sapienza, (Routledge, 2023. Pp. 304. 66B/W illustrations. ISBN 9781032053516 HbK £125)
   Economic History Review, 2025, 78, (1), 335-336
2. Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England
   Economic History Review, 2025, 78, (1), 179-206 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2025) View citations (3) (2025)

2023

3. Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748
   The Journal of Economic History, 2023, 83, (4), 1101-1137 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Job tenure and unskilled workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

4. Andrea Caracausi, Matthew Davies, and Luca Mocarelli, eds., Between regulation and freedom: work and manufactures in European cities 14th–18th centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xiii+146. ISBN 1‐5275‐0638‐X Hbk. £58.99)
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (1), 299-300
5. John Henderson, Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+363. 39 plates. 4 maps. 9 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9780300196344 Hbk. £30.00)
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (3), 857-858
6. Symposium
   Economic History Review, 2021, 74, (2), 339-340

2020

7. The extent of citizenship in pre-industrial England, Germany, and the Low Countries
   European Review of Economic History, 2020, 24, (3), 601-625
   See also Working Paper The extent of citizenship in pre-industrial England, Germany, and the low countries, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2018

8. Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800
   The Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78, (3), 862-903 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper Structural change and economic growth in the British economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2018) View citations (25) (2018)

2013

9. Picking winners? The effect of birth order and migration on parental human capital investments in pre-modern England
   European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17, (2), 210-232 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Picking Winners? The Effect of Birth Order and Migration on Parental Human Capital Investments in Pre-Modern England, Working Papers (2013) View citations (11) (2013)
10. The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England
    Explorations in Economic History, 2013, 50, (3), 335-350 View citations (25)

2012

11. Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in early modern England
    Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (2), 556-579 View citations (24)

2011

12. Networks in the Premodern Economy: The Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600–1749
    The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (2), 413-443 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749, CEP Discussion Papers (2009) View citations (4) (2009)

2008

13. Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England
    The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (3), 832-861 View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper Apprenticeship and training in premodern England, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2007) (2007)
14. Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early‐modern London
    Economic History Review, 2008, 61, (1), 26-53 View citations (6)

2005

15. Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic
    Social Science & Medicine, 2005, 60, (11), 2629-2639 View citations (24)

Edited books

2022

1. Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2019

2. Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (3)