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_219: Regional variation and the Asian little divergence

Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao and Hanhui Guan

_218: What is Technological Unemployment

Anselm Küsters and Benjamin Schneider

_217: Blockading Britain and Germany During World War 1: Preparations, Conduct and Consequence of Economic Warfare

Stephen Broadberry and Tamás Vonyó

_216: How Did Japan Catch-Up With the West? Some Implications or Recent Revisions to Japan’s Historical Growth Record

Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao and Tokihiko Settsu

_215: Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of Evidence

Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison

_214: Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting: Evidence from Canada-US migration

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Miko Lepistö and Chris Minns

_213: Where is the Place in the History of Work? Worksites, Workspaces, and the Home-Work Nexus

Benjamin Schneider and Jane Whittle

_212: All aboard! Railroad access and Mexico-US mass migration

David Escamilla-Guerrero

_211: The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Andrea Papadia and Ariell Zimran

_210: The Thirty Years’ War and the Decline of Urban Germany

Victoria Gierok

_209: European Business Cycles and Economic Growth, 1300-2000

Stephen Broadberry and Jason Lennard

_208: The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada

Markus Lampe, Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, Lorenz Reiter and Yoto Yotov

_207: Technological unemployment in the British industrial revolution: the destruction of hand spinning

Benjamin Schneider

_206: The Last Free Traders? Interwar Trade Policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies

Pim de Zwart, Markus Lampe and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_205: Should history change the way we think about populism?

Alan de Bromhead and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_204: The Black Death and the origin of the European marriage pattern

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

_203: British economic growth and development

Stephen Broadberry

_202: Good Jobs and Bad Jobs in History

Benjamin Schneider

_201: African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?

Edward Kerby, Alexander Moradi and Hanjo Odendaal

_200: Economics and history: Analyzing serfdom

Sheilagh Ogilvie

_199: States and wars: China’s long march towards unity and its consequences, 221 BC – 1911 AD

Shuo Chen and Debin Ma

_198: British Business Cycles, 1270-1870

Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen

_197: Catching-up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1960s-1880s

Stephen Broadberry and Elena Korchmina

_196: Regional Variation of GDP per head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate

Stephen Broadberry and Hanhui Guan

_195: Railways as Patient Capital

Oliver Lewis and Avner Offer

_194: The distress of Italian commercial banks in 1926-1936: a new dataset from banking supervision archives

Marco Molteni

_193: Anticipating financial crisis in the 1960s and 1980s: using the past to plan for the ‘Apocalypse’

Catherine Schenk

_192: Russian Economic Growth during the Eighteenth Century

Stephen Broadberry and Elena Korchmina

_191: Gender Equality, Growth, and How a Technological Trap Destroyed Female Work

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

_190: Four great Asian trade collapses

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_189: The Irish economy during the century after Partition

Cormac Ó Gráda and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_188: The Smoot-Hawley Trade War

Kris James Mitchener, Kirsten Wandschneider and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_187: Accounting for the Great Divergence: Recent findings from historical national accounting

Stephen Broadberry

_186: Capital and Economic Growth in Britain, 1270-1870: Preliminary Findings

Stephen Broadberry and Alexandra de Pleijt

_185: An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800-1921

Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

_184: The Gravitational Constant?

David Jacks, Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

_183: Life after Crossing the Border: Assimilation during the First Mexican Mass Migration

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward

_182: The Jobless Recovery After the 1980-1981 UK Recession

Meredith Paker

_181: The Voice of Radio in the Battle for Equal Rights: Evidence from the U.S. South

Andrea Bernini

_180: The Impact of Interwar Protection: Evidence from India

Vellore Arthi, Markus Lampe, Ashwin Nair and Kevin O'Rourke

_179: Migrant self-selection in the presence of random shocks. Evidence from the Panic of 1907

David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay Lopez-Alonso

_178: Aristocracy and Inequality in Italy, 1861-1931

Brian A'Hearn, Stefano Chianese and Giovanni Vecchi

_177: A Noi! Income Inequality and Italian Fascism: Evidence from Labour and Top Income Shares

Giacomo Gabbuti

_176: International Banking and Financial Fragility: The Contrasting Experience of Brazil and Mexico in the Lead-up to the 1982 Crisis

Sebastian Alvarez

_175: History from Underneath: Girls Experience in an Era of Economic Change

Jane Humphries

_174: Wages at the Wheel: Were Spinners Part of the High Wage Economy?

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

_173: Revisiting Mexican migration in the Age of Mass Migration. New evidence from individual border crossings

David Escamilla-Guerrero

_172: Working for a Living? Women and Children’s Labour Inputs in England, 1260-1850

Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

_171: German trade finance in South America during the second industrial revolution. La Batalla de Buenos Aires, 1875-1913

Wilfried Kisling and Antonio Tena-Junguito

_170: The Industrial Revolution in General Equilibrium

Knick Harley