Economic History Working Papers

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130283: Upgrading traditional industries in interwar Japan: from cotton tabi to Bridgestone tyres

Tom Learmouth

130243: The case for tiered liability: evidence from the City of Glasgow Bank failure

C. A. E. Goodhart and Natacha Postel-Vinay

129982: How long do wealth shocks persist? Less than three generations in England, 1700-2025

Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins

129951: Quantifying connectivity: the causal effect of railway accessibility on local industrial economic outcomes, France 1846-1865

Josephine Precetti

129940: The Holy Roman Empire at bay: financing the defence against the Ottomans, c.1560-1610

Oliver Volckart

129939: Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as a tool for historical demography

Melanie Xue

129938: The terminal revolution: Reuters and Bloomberg as global providers of financial and economic news, 1960-2020

Gerben Bakker

129885: Build better health: evidence from Ireland on housing quality and mortality

Alan de Bromhead, Ronan C. Lyons and Johann Ohler

129884: Build better health: evidence from Ireland on housing quality and mortality

Alan de Bromhead, Ronan C. Lyons and Johann Ohler

129442: How conspicuous is fashion? A quantitative analysis of luxury discourse in Vogue and income inequality, 1910-2000

Scarlett Potter

129441: Beyond enclosure: the role of estate management in transforming the Corbet Estates in North Shropshire, 1740-1840

Kate Wilson

129440: The impact of novelty examination on the regional distribution of patenting activity in early 20th century Britain

Anya Tate

128854: What is the case fatality rate of smallpox?

Eric B. Schneider and Romola Davenport

128853: Pandemics, capital allocation and structural change

Sergi Basco and Joan R. Roses

128852: Predictive modeling the past

Meredith Paker, Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis

128850: Born in smog: the short- and long-run health consequences of acute air pollution exposure in historical London, 1892-1919

Eric B. Schneider

128849: Smithian growth in Britain before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800

David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce and Patrick Wallis

128607: Managing exchange risk foreign monies and private trade finance in pre-modern long-distance trade (or why did bills of exchange not circulate beyond Europe?)

Alejandra Irigoin

128024: The commercialization of labour markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita and Spike Gibbs

128023: The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China

Melanie Xue and Boxiao Zhang

127236: Anatomy of a lobby group: the National Hungarian Economic Society at the end of the 19th century

Balázs Thaler

127205: North American female suffrage: the role of occupational dispersion in the West

Gayatri Sajayan

127155: Eighteenth-century Irish interest rates – market failure in a booming economy

Paul V. Kelly

127154: Deciphering the debt: the intersection of syndicated lending and moral hazard in East Asia’s financial crisis

Haley Schlicht

127153: Between developmentalism and welfare: the political economy of housing the urban poor in 1990s Latin America

Sophia Oettinger

127152: Assessing the role of trade in shaping the Great Divergence between Imperial China and Western Europe

Ningzhu Wu

127150: Intensive growth in the 11th century Byzantine economy: evidence from southern Greece and Byzantine Italy

David Dietze-Hermosa

127149: Networking know-how: a critical literature review of artisanal knowledge in early modern European cities

William James

127148: The statistical underestimation of structural modernisation in Europe’s postwar golden age

Ross Kelly

127147: The Flying Geese pattern of development in the ASEAN5: analysis and implications

Eliott Sistac

127146: Creation of Triest Free Territory: an examination of the decision-making process through correspondence letters in the aftermath of World War II

Virginia Bianchini

127145: Who flushed first? What characterised the early adoption patterns of private drainage in London, 1812-1847?

Ursula Hall

126165: The geography of economic mobility in 19th century Canada

Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield

126154: Does the case of the Chilean nitrate boom support activist or deterministic interpretations of the ‘resource curse’?

Nicholas Harris

126083: Laying off old guards to rebuild state capacity: Deng Xiaoping’s bloodless coup d’etat in post-Mao China, 1980-2000

Jingyuan Guo and Kent Deng

125855: Transport cost in the Great Divergence: Yangtze China vs England

Ruoran Cheng

125641: Will climate change disrupt tropical development? Lessons from economic history

Tirthankar Roy

124681: Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018

Neil Cummins

122355: Domestic savings-driven growth: unveiling internal economic dynamics in China, 1980-2010

Kent Deng and Jane Du

121731: Spinning welfare: the gains from process innovation in cotton and car production

Tim Leunig and Joachim Voth

121709: Communal responsibility and the coexistence of money and credit under anonymous matching

Lars Michael Boerner and Albrecht Ritschl

120987: The impact of fundamentalist terrorism on school enrolment: evidence from north-western Pakistan, 2004-2016

Sarah Khan and Andrew Seltzer

120364: European business cycles and economic growth, 1300-2000

Stephen Broadberry and Jason Lennard

120307: Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: it's not (all) about the money

Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita and Spike Gibbs

120277: Inputs, outputs and living standards in rural China during the 1920s and 30s: a quantitative analysis

Yuton Wang, Jingyuan Guo and Kent Deng

119759: China inside out: explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c.1820s-1870s

Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi and David Chilosi

119284: Respectable standards of living: the alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270-1860

Jane Humphries

119282: The past and future of work: how history can inform the age of automation

Benjamin Schneider and Hillary Vipond

118264: How well-integrated was the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire?

Oliver Volckart

118237: Exchange rates, tariffs and prices in 1930s Britain

Jagjit Chadha, Jason Lennard, Solomos Solomou and Ryland Thomas