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_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 R. 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 and 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 M. 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

_169: Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008

Stephen Broadberry and Leigh Gardner

_168: Death of a Dream: liberal values and the crisis of the British Welfare State, 1945-2014

Harold Carter

_166: Spinning their Wheels: A Reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

Robert Allen

_165: Patient and impatient capital: time horizons as market boundaries

Avner Offer

_164: Working Time, Dinner Time, Serving Time: Labour and Law in Industrialization

Douglas Hay

_163: Children’s work and Wages, 1270-1860

Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries

_162: Looking for work? Or looking for workers? Days and hours of work in London construction in the eighteenth century

Judy Stephenson

_161: Skill Selection and American Immigration Policy in the Interwar Period

Alexander Wulfers

_160: The anatomy of a trade collapse: The UK, 1929-33

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Markus Lampe

_158: Russian Real Wages Before and After 1917: in Global Perspective

Robert Allen and Ekaterina Khaustova

_157: Toddlers, teenagers & terminal heights: The determinants of adult male stature Flanders 1800-76

Ewout Depauw and Deborah Oxley

_156: Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874

Stephen Broadberry, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao, Bishnupriya Gupta and Masanori Takashima

_155: China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850

Stephen Broadberry, Hanhui Guan and David Daokui Li

_154: Growing, Shrinking and Long Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development

Stephen Broadberry and John Wallis

_153: Real Wages and Skill Premiums during Economic Development in Latin America

Pablo Astorga

_152: When Britain turned inward: Protection and the shift towards Empire in interwar Britain

Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Markus Lampe

_151: Heights Across the Last 2000 Years in England

Gregori Galofré-VilÃ, Andrew Hinde and Aravinda Guntupalli

_149: The Market Turn: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism

Avner Offer

_148: Rethinking Age-heaping, a Cautionary Tale From Nineteenth Century Italy

Brian A'Hearn, Alexia Delfino and Alessandro Nuvolari

_147: Unreal Wages? A New Empirical Foundation for the Study of Living Standards and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1860

Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

_146: Revising England's Social Tables Once Again

Robert Allen