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9: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Chaturica Athukorala

9: Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites

Wang-Sheng Lee and Ben Li

9: Did Speculation in Land Pay Off for British Investors? Buying and Selecting Land in South Australia, 1835-1850

Edwyna Harris and Sumner La Croix

9: Information costs and trade: Evidence from international electric telegraphy during the "golden age" of globalisation

Sean Bottomley and Brian D. Varian

9: Australian Innovative Activity and Offshore Technology 1904 – 2016

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

9: Deindustrialisation and re-industrialisation in the Middle East: Reflections on the cotton industry in Egypt and western Anatolia

Laura Panza

9: Artificial Administrative Boundaries: Evidence from China

Pei Li, Yi Lu and Tuan-Heww Sng

8: The unavailing origin of Australian protectionism? Victoria's McCulloch Tariff of 1866

Brian D. Varian

8: Farmer Families at the Heart of the Educational Revolution: Which Occupational Group Inherited Human Capital in the Early Modern Era?

Franziska Tollnek and Joerg Baten

8: Always Egalitarian: Australian Earnings Inequality 1870-1910 1

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

8: Which States Gained, and Which States Lost, from Australia’s Federation Customs Union of 1902? The Answers of a Theoretical Schema, with an Empirical Check

William Coleman

8: A European Political-Economic Space That Embraced Japan: The International Context of the Conventional Tariff Network, CA. 1892-1914

Toshiki Kawashima

8: The Shaping of a Settler Fertility Transition: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century South African Demographic History Reconsidered

Jeanne Cilliers and Martine Mariotti

8: Patents, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Australia, 1860-2010

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

7: Testing the predictive power of genuine savings as a long-run indicator of future well-being

David Greasley, Nick Hanley, Jan Kunnas, Eoin McLaughlin, Les Oxley and Paul Warde

7: Recovery from Financial Crises in Peripheral Economies, 1870-1913

Peter Bent

7: Immobile Australia: Surnames show Strong Status Persistence, 1870-2017

Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh and Mike Pottenger

7: Sailing Ship Technology, Navigation and the Duration of Voyages to Australia, 1848-85

Timothy Hatton

7: Emigration from the UK 1870-1913: Quantity and Quality

Timothy Hatton

7: Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920

Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood and Martine Mariotti

7: The Revenue Maximising Tariff Rate: A Theoretical Model Applied to 1890s Victoria

William Coleman

6: Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia: Historical Experiences, 1900s-1950s

Pierre van der Eng

6: The Trade Policy of Argentina, 1870-1913. A Study through Customs Legislation

Agustina Rayes

6: Share Portfolios and Risk Management in the Early Years of Financial Capitalism: London 1690-1730

Ann Carlos, Erin Fletcher and Larry Neal

6: DEALING WITH LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS: THE CASE OF PHILIPS IN AUSTRALIA, 1945-1980

Pierre van der Eng

6: Chinese Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Business Demography Approach

Pierre van der Eng

6: Securities Trading in an Emerging Market: Indonesia, 1890s-1950s

Pierre van der Eng

6: Identifying Colonial Roads in Southern New Jersey: An application of field and archival methods to document the locations and roles of critical American Revolutionary War supply routes

Cameron Gordon, Caroline N. Peters and Jonathan R. Peters3

6: Market integration and a lower-productivity economy: the case of Australian federation and Queensland’s manufacturing sector, 1897–1906

Brian D. Varian

6: Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act

Giovanni Facchini, Timothy Hatton and Max Steinhardt

5: THE SAMURAI BOND: CREDIT SUPPLY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PRE-WAR JAPAN

Sergi Basco and John Tang

5: Shining a Light: Female Investors in the Australian Gas Light Company, 1836-1940

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

5: ‘Send Them a Shipload of Rice’: Australia’s Food Aid to Indonesia, 1960s-1970s

Pierre van der Eng

5: Between Ideas and Interests The Spanich Fight for Free Trade, 1879-C. 1903

Marcela Sabat� and José Serrano Sanz

5: Gender(ed) equity: The growth of female shareholding in Australia, 1857-1937

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

5: Relief During the Great Depression in Australia and America

Price Fishback

5: The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880-1938

Jean-Pascal Bassino and Pierre van der Eng

5: The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Economic History in Australia

Andrew Seltzer, Martin Shanahan and Claire Wright

5: Stop! Go! What can we learn about family planning from birth timing in settler South Africa, 1800-1910?

Jeanne Cilliers and Martine Mariotti

4: Population, Migration and Labour Supply: Great Britain 1871 - 2011

Timothy Hatton

4: German Export Survival in the First Globalisation

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland

4: Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910

Christopher Meissner and John Tang

4: Did the Executions of French Soldiers during the Great War Reflect Their Pacifist Views?

Olivier Guillot and Antoine Parent

4: Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Timothy Hatton

4: Religion and Growth

Sascha Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann

4: Internal Migration, Education and Upward Rank Mobility:Evidence from American History

Zachary Ward

4: Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Timothy Hatton

4: Surviving the Deluge: British Servicemen in World War I

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

3: Living Standards In South Africa's Former Homelands

Martine Mariotti

3: Church and State in Historical Political Economy

Sascha Becker and Steven Pfaff

3: The Australian corporate bond market before credit ratings, 1915-83

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

3: Age at Arrival and Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

Rohan Alexander and Zachary Ward

3: Co-authorship in Economic History and Economics: Are We Any Different?

Andrew Seltzer and Daniel Hamermesh

3: South Australia’s Employment Relief Program for Assisted Immigrants: Promises and Reality, 1838-1843

Edwyna Harris and Sumner La Croix

3: From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler

Sascha Becker and Hans-Joachim Voth

3: The Political Economy of Assisted Immigration: Australia 1860-1913

Timothy Hatton

3: Signalling quality in a developing capital market: underwriting, security choice and disclosure in Australian equity issuances, 1920-1939

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

3: Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future

Sascha O. Becker, Amma Panin, Steven Pfaff and Jared Rubin

2: The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Setting: The Factories and Shops Act of Victoria (Australia), 1896-1913

Andrew J. Seltzer

2: Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Andrew Leigh

2: International Migration in the Atlantic Economy 1850 - 1940

Timothy Hatton and Zachary Ward

2: Banks, Credit Supply, and the Life Cycle of Firms: Theory and Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century Japan

Sergi Basco and John Tang

2: Effective Rates of Protection in an Industrialising, Settler Economy: Estimates for Victoria (Australia) in 1880

Brian D. Varian

2: Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

2: Adam Smith's Case Against the British Empire

William Coleman

2: Pipe Dreams and Tunnel Visions: Economists and Australian Population Debates before the Baby Boom

William Coleman

2: Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Sascha Becker

2: The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval

Alison Booth, Xin Meng, Elliott Fan and Dandan Zhang

1: Constructing GDP Estimates by the Output Approach, Malaya 1900-1939

Tin Htoo Naing

1: The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass Imprisonment in Australia

Andrew Leigh

1: Explaining Trends in Adult Height in China: 1950 to 1990

Minhee Chae, Timothy Hatton and Xin Meng

1: Labour Markets in Recession and Recovery: The UK and the USA in the 1920s and 1930s

Timothy Hatton and Mark Thomas

1: Economic Aspects of Australian Federation: Trade Restrictiveness and Welfare Effects in the Colonies and the Commonwealth, 1901-3

Luke Grayson and Brian Varian

1: Mortality from the 1944-1945 famine in Java, Indonesia

Pierre van der Eng

1: Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison

Eric Edwards, Martin Fiszbein and Gary Libecap

1: Structural Change and the Fertility Transition in the American South

Philipp Ager, Markus Brueckner and Benedikt Herz

1: Australian Exceptionalism? Inequality and Living Standards 1821-1871

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson

1: Always Egalitarian? Australian Earnings Inequality c1870

Laura Panza and Jeffrey G. Williamson