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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: Australian Innovative Activity and Offshore Technology 1904 – 2016

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

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: Artificial Administrative Boundaries: Evidence from China

Pei Li, Yi Lu and Tuan-Heww Sng

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

Laura Panza

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

Sean Bottomley and Brian D. Varian

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

Jeanne Cilliers and Martine Mariotti

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 Williamson

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

Toshiki Kawashima

8: Attracting manufacturing firms to South Australia: The case of Philips in Hendon, 1946-1980

Martin Shanahan and Pierre van der Eng

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

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

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

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

Peter Bent

7: Prizes and Patents: Female Innovation in Colonial Australia

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

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

Timothy Hatton

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

William Coleman

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

Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood and Martine Mariotti

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: 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

6: Chinese Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Business Demography Approach

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: Creative Types: Inventive Women in Colonial Australia

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

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

Pierre van der Eng

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

Brian D. Varian

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

Pierre van der Eng

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

Pierre van der Eng

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

Ann Carlos, Erin Fletcher and Larry Neal

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

Agustina Rayes

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

Giovanni Facchini, Timothy Hatton and Max Steinhardt

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

Andrew Seltzer, Martin Shanahan and Claire Wright

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

Sergi Basco and John Tang

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: Discrimination After Hiring: Within-Firm Sorting, Slow Employer Learning, and the Cost to the Sorted Worker

Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood and Martine Mariotti

5: Migration to Australia, the Transition from Sail to Steam, and the SS Great Britain

Timothy Hatton

5: Relief During the Great Depression in Australia and America

Price Fishback

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

Marcela Sabat� and José Serrano Sanz

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

Jeanne Cilliers and Martine Mariotti

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

Pierre van der Eng

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

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

4: Religion and Growth

Sascha Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann

4: Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910

Christopher Meissner and John Tang

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

Timothy Hatton

4: The Economic Demography of Intercontinental Migration

Timothy Hatton

4: German Export Survival in the First Globalisation

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland

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

Olivier Guillot and Antoine Parent

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

Zachary Ward

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

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Timothy Hatton

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

Timothy Hatton

4: Explaining Divergence in Ocean Freight Rates and Passenger Fares, 1863-1913

Timothy Hatton

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

Roy Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood