Lund Papers in Economic History

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194: Men at work: Real wages from annual and casual labour in southern Sweden 1500–1850

Kathryn E. Gary and Mats Olsson

193: Hur ekonomisk historia blev en egen disciplin vid de svenska universiteten

Olle Krantz

192: Strikes and Lockouts in Sweden: Reconsidering Raphael’s List of Work Stoppages 1859-1902

Tobias Karlsson

191: Försörjningsstöd, institutioner och strukturcykeln

Daniel Rauhut and Neelambar Hatti

190: Discipline or external balance? The choice of international monetary systems in Europe

Jonas Ljungberg and Anders Ögren

189: The distinct seasonality of early modern casual labor and the short durations of individual working years: Sweden 1500-1800

Kathryn Gary

188: Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions

Engelbert Stockhammer and Erik Bengtsson

187: It’s a long walk: Lasting effects of maternity ward openings on labour market performance

Volha Lazuka

186: The rise of the middle class: The income gap between salaried employees and workers in Sweden, 1830-1935

Erik Bengtsson and Svante Prado

185: Without coal in the age of steam and dams in the age of electricity: An explanation for the failure of Portugal to industrialize before the Second World War

Sofia Teives Henriques and Paul Sharp

184: The Social Capability Index and Income Convergence

Andrés Palacio

183: Resilience to Economic Shrinking: A Social Capability Approach to Processes of Catching up in the Developing World 1951-2016

Martin Andersson

182: The energy transition in the Swedish iron and steel sector, 1800-1939

Cristián Ducoing and Fredrik Olsson-Spjut

181: A Workers’ Revolution in Sweden? Exploring Economic Growth and Distributional Change with Detailed Data on Construction Workers’ Wages, 1831–1900

Johan Ericsson and Jakob Molinder

180: Predictors of Bank Distress: The 1907 Crisis in Sweden

Anna Grodecka-Messi, Seán Kenny and Anders Ögren

179: Wages, income distribution and economic growth in Scandinavia

Erik Bengtsson and Engelbert Stockhammer

178: Schizophrenia of Corrupt Behavior: Traditional norms versus Weberian forms

Mason C. Hoadley and Neelambar Hatti

177: The wealth of the Swedish peasant farmer class 1750–1900: Composition and distribution

Erik Bengtsson and Patrick Svensson

176: Wildcat Bankers or Political Failure? The Irish Financial Pantomime, 1797-1826

Seán Kenny and John D. Turner

175: Peasant Aristocrats? Wealth and Social Status of Swedish Farmer Parliamentarians 1769–1895

Erik Bengtsson and Mats Olsson

174: Retainers and retirement: Pieter Bruegel (†1566), pensioner in Sint-Janshuis retirement home, Bergen op Zoom

Jaco Zuijderduijn

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

Jeanne Cilliers and Martine Mariotti

172: Record Linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Auke Rijpma, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

171: Managing a Century of Debt

John Fitzgerald and Seán Kenny

170: Uncertainty and the Great Slump

Jason Lennard

169: Revenue Nodes in South India and Central Java

Mason Hoadley and Neelambar Hatti

168: Between Malthus and the industrial take-off: regional inequality in Sweden, 1571-1850

Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia

167: Innovation Trends and Industrial Renewal in Finland and Sweden 1970-2013

Astrid Kander, Josef Taalbi, Juha Oksanen, Karolin Sjöö and Nina Rilla

166: 'Till Debt Do Us Part': Financial Implications of the Divorce of the Irish Free State from the UK, 1922-6

John Fitzgerald and Seán Kenny

165: The Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750-1938

Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and John D. Turner

164: Transforming Indonesia: Structural change in a regional perspective 1968-2010

Tobias Axelsson and Andrés Palacio

163: Between the Engine and the Fifth Wheel: An Analytical Survey of the Shifting Roles of Agriculture in Development Theory

Martin Andersson and Emelie Rohne Till

162: Regional GDP estimates for Sweden, 1571-1850

Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia

161: The Wealth of the Richest: Inequality and the Nobility in Sweden, 1750–1900

Erik Bengtsson, Anna Missiaia, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

160: Impact of innovation policy on firm innovation – A comparison of Finland and Sweden, 1970-2013

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland, Antti Pelkonen, Juha Oksanen and Astrid Kander

159: Origins and Pathways of Innovation in the Third Industrial Revolution: Sweden, 1950-2013

Josef Taalbi

158: Constructing equality?: Women’s wages for physical labor, 1550-1759

Kathryn Gary

157: The Effects of Birth Weight on Hospitalizations and Sickness Absences

Jonas Helgertz and Anton Nilsson

156: The political economy of peripheral tax reform: the Spanish fiscal transition

Sara Torregrosa Hetland

155: Did Monetary Policy Matter? Narrative Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard

Jason Lennard

154: Infant health and later-life labour market outcomes: Evidence from the introduction of sulfa antibiotics in Sweden

Volha Lazuka

153: The lasting health and income effects of public health formation in Sweden

Volha Lazuka

152: Swedish GDP 1300-1560: A Tentative Estimate

Olle Krantz

151: Estimating agricultural production in Scania, 1702–1881: User guide for the Historical Database of Scanian Agriculture and overall results

Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

150: The Ages of Women and Men: Life Cycles, Family and Investment in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Jaco Zuijderduijn

149: Elites and the Expansion of Education in 19th-century Sweden

Jens Andersson and Thor Berger

148: Unequal lands: Soil type, nutrition and child mortality in southern Sweden, 1850-1914

Finn Hedefalk, Luciana Quaranta and Tommy Bengtsson

147: Opposites Attract – Evidence of Status Exchange in Ethnic Intermarriages in Sweden

Annika Elwert

146: The long-term health benefits of receiving treatment from qualified midwives at birth

Volha Lazuka

145: Public Debt Episodes in Irish Economic History 1950-2015

Sean Kenny

144: To be or not to be? Risk attitudes and gender differences in union membership

Tobias Karlsson and Maria Stanfors

143: The Effect of a Massive Wage Push on Income Distribution and Employment. Evidence from the 1920 Eight-Hour Workday Reform in Sweden and Its Aftermath

Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder

142: Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800 to 1910 - Workers' share of growing income

Erik Bengtsson

141: Did Gender-Bias Matter in the Quantity-Quality Trade-off in 19th Century France?

Claude Diebolt, Tapas Mishra and Faustine Perrin

140: New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices

Lennart Schön and Olle Krantz

139: Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Pension Insurances in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Zeyuan Chen, Tommy Bengtsson and Jonas Helgertz

138: Famines in the Nordic countries, AD 536–1875

Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

137: Dimensions of Precarity: A Contradictory Case of Non-Standard Employment

Tobias Karlsson

136: A Winning Strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialization

Björn Eriksson and Maria Stanfors

135: Finland’s regional GDPs 1880-2010: estimates, sources and interpretations

Kerstin Enflo

134: Was the wage burden too heavy? Profitability and wage shares of settler agriculture in colonial Malawi, c 1900-1960

Jutta Bolt and Erik Green

133: SWINNO: A Database of Swedish Innovations, 1970-2007

Karolin Sjöö, Josef Taalbi, Astrid Kander and Jonas Ljungberg

132: Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden

Thor Berger and Kerstin Enflo

131: Patterns of Bank Credit Allocation and Economic Growth: The Case of Denmark, 1736-2012

Ali Abou-Zeinab

130: Social Structures and Income Distribution in Colonial sub-Saharan Africa. The Case of Bechuanaland Protectorate 1936-1964

Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom

129: Involutionary Growth in a Labour-Scarce Economy. A dialectic interpretation of the boom and bust of cocoa production in Ghana, c. 1890-1970

Erik Green

128: Asymmetric Trends and European Monetary Policy in the post-Bretton Woods Era

Tony Johansson and Jonas Ljungberg

127: A Scientific Revolution that Made Life Longer. Schooling and the Decline of Infant Mortality in Europe

Jonas Ljungberg

126: Causality Between Energy and Output in the Long-Run

David Stern and Kerstin Enflo

125: Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency: Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940

Erik Green

124: Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources

Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

123: Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560-2010

Lennart Schön and Olle Krantz

122: Coping with Regional Inequality in Sweden: Structural Change, Migrations and Policy, 1860-2000

Kerstin Enflo and Joan Rosés

121: Before Careers: Experiences of Wage Growth among Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Cigar Workers

Maria Stanfors and Joyce Burnette