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11034: Determinants of infant mortality variations across France in the 19th century

Jean-Pierre Dormois and Jean-Pascal Bassino

11033: Sex differentials in mortality in mid-19th century England and Wales

Andrew Hinde

11032: Market integration and trade in the Mediterranean, 1500-1900

Victoria Bateman

11031: Did Swedish ball bearings keep the Second World War going? Re-evaluating neutral Sweden’s role

Eric Golson

11030: Market power inside the Belgian coal industry, 1901-45: a new empirical industrial organisation approach

Gil Montant

11029: The determinants of local population growth: a study of Oxfordshire in the 19th century

Mark Casson

11028: The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late-19th century

Paul Sharp, Ingrid Henriksen and Markus Lampe

11027: Technology and the Great Divergence

Robert Allen

11026: Major crises and depressions: comparisons of the current crisis to the Great Depression and the classical Gold Standard

Ronald Albers and Lars Jonung

11025: Women Moneylenders in Liverpool: 1920s to 1940s

Peter Fearon

11024: The economic consequences of serfdom and emancipation in Tsarist Russia

Steven Nafziger

11023: Government economic policy and the formation of investment climate: the experience of Russia in the late 19th – early 20th centuries

Natalia Drozdova and Irina Kormilitsyna

11022: The Stolypin agrarian reform and peasant migration

Andrei Markevich, Eugenia Chernina and Paul Castañeda Dower

11021: Costs, cycles and causes of migration across the North Atlantic, 1870-1914

Drew Keeling

11020: North Atlantic steerage fares and emigration, 1820-70: evidence from the Cope Line passenger service

John Killick

11019: Cultural diversity and economic growth: evidence from the USA during the age of mass migration

Markus Brückner and Philipp Ager

11018: Wagons at work: a transport revolution in the age of agrarian transition in Sweden?

Mats Olsson, Fredrik Bergenfeldt and Patrick Svensson

11017: Recreational spending, taste, and milieu of the elite in London, c.1700-1820

Ben Heller

11016: Political instability and stock market reaction: the Anglo-Iranian oil nationalisation, 1951

Neveen Abdelrehim, Josephine Maltby and Steven Toms

11015: Entrepreneurial failure and economic crisis: an historical perspective

Mark Casson

11014: Mutual contributions and future prospects

Steven Toms and John Wilson

11013: The colonial origins of divergence in the Americas: a labour market approach

Tommy Murphy, Robert Allen and Eric Schneider

11012: Unreal wages: problems with long-run standards of living and the ‘golden age’ of the 15th century

John Hatcher

11011: Measuring the national wealth in late-18th century Britain

Stephen Thompson

11010: Patterns of industrial specialisation in post-unification Italy

Carlo Ciccarelli and Tommaso Proietti

11009: Exports, growth and causality: new evidence on Italy, 1863-2004

Alberto Rinaldi and Barbara Pistoresi

11008: The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers, 1800-58

Margaret Makepeace

11007: What lessons can we draw from the Champagne Fairs?

Sheilagh Ogilvie and Jeremy Edwards

11006: From the voluntary sector to the non-profit sector: charities and public contracting in the United States

Andrew Morris

11005: The 'bid society' and the National Citizen Service: young people volunteering and engagement with charities in the 20th century

Kate Bradley

11004: The vanishing impact of financial crises: fluctuations of the bankruptcy rate in France, 1820-1913

Vincent Bignon

11003: Land ownership, inequality and rural unrest: evidence from the Latifundia regions of Spain before the Civil War

Jordi Domenech

11002: Rock, scissors: the problem of incentives and information in the traditional China state and the origin of the Great Divergence

Debin Ma

11001: Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an 18th-century world region

Tirthankar Roy

10022: Adjustment of age-related height decline for Chinese: a ‘natural experiment’ longitudinal survey using archival data

Stephen Morgan

10021: Economic growth and the convergence of grain markets at the end of the middle ages: the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula in the 15th-16th centuries

Jorge Ortuño Molina

10020: Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910-50

Timothy Hatton

10019: Rice prices, grain wages of carpenters and skill premium in Kyoto c.1260-1600: a comparison with London,Florence, Istanbul, and Cairo

Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao and Masanori Takashima

10018: The moral economy of the Scottish industrial community: new perspectives on the 1984-5 miners’ strike

Jim Phillips

10017: Service, gender and wages in England, 1700-1860

Jacob F Field

10016: Men’s unemployment and job opportunities for women: an analysis of the 1834 Poor Law Report

Chiaki Yamamoto

10015: Was land reform necessary? Access to land in Spain, 1904-34

Juan Carmona and Joan Rosés

10014: From public to private: Fascist privatization in 1920s Italyç

Germà Bel

10013: Sugar and metals as commodity money in colonial Brazil

Fernando Lima

10012: Good or bad money? A comparative analysis of debasement in the late middle ages

David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart

10011: Did high stakes testing policies result in divergence or convergence in educational performance and financing across counties in Victorian England?

David Mitch

10010: The rise and fall of Spain, 1270-1850

Carlos Álvarez-Noga and Leandro Prados de la Escosura

10009: British economic growth, 1300-1850: some preliminary estimates

Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein and Mark Overton

10008: A woman’s industry? The role of women in the workforce of the Dundee jute industry c. 1945-79

Valerie Wright

10007: Managing the introduction of competition into the Jute industry 1957-63

Carlo Morelli, Jim Tomlinson and Valerie Wright