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_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

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_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

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_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

_145: Spinning the Industrial Revolution

Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider

_144: On Historical Household Budgets

Brian A'Hearn, Nicola Amendola and Giovanni Vecchi

_143: Perception vs Reality: How Does The British Electorate Evaluate Economic Performance of Incumbent Governments In The Post War Period?

Jonathon M. Clegg

_142: The Hand-Loom Weaver and the Power Loom: A Schumpeterian Perspective

Robert Allen

_141: Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire

Robert Allen

_140: Achieving the American Dream: Cultural Distance, Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance

Valeria Rueda, Guillaume Laval and Etienne Patin

_139: Economic Impossibilities For Our Grandchildren?

Kevin O'Rourke

_138: To Claim or Not Claim? Friendly Societies In New Zealand, 1879-1884

Arthur Downing

_137: Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-Industrial Spain

Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Francisco Beltrán Tapia

_136: Feast or Famine: The Welfare Impact of Food Price Controls in Nazi Germany

Robin Winkler

_135: Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century

Pablo Astorga

_134: Indices of House Prices and Rent Prices of Residential Property in London, 1895-1939

Luke Samy

_133: Gender discrimination in 19thc England: evidence from factory children

Sara Horrell and Deborah Oxley

_132: Growth, Import Dependence and War

Kevin O'Rourke and Roberto Bonfatti

_131: Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK

Eric Schneider

_130: Children's Growth in an Adaptive Framework: Explaining the Growth Patterns of American Slaves and Other Historical Populations

Eric Schneider

_129: "The Dust was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

Vellore Arthi

_128: Urbanization in Southeast Asia during the World War II Japanese Occupation and Its Aftermath

Gregg Huff and Gillian Huff

_127: The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

_126: The growing dependence of Britain on trade during the Industrial Revolution

Kevin O'Rourke, Gregory Clark and Alan Taylor

_125: Risk and Success: Re-assessing Female Entrepreneurship in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

Jennifer Aston and Paolo Di Martino

_124: Coal and the European Industrial Revolution

Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Fernihough

_123: The Bank of England and the British Economy, 1890-1913

Nicholas Dimsdale

_122: The Dynamics of Consumption and Investment in the Victorian Economy

Nicholas Dimsdale

_120: A monthly stock exchange index for Ireland, 1864-1930

Kevin O'Rourke, Richard Grossman, Madalina A. Ursu and Ronan Lyons

_119: Did Nazis save more? Household saving and ideology in pre-war National Socialist Germany

Robin Winkler

_118: Blood and bone: Body mass, gender and health inequality in 19th century British families

David Meredith and Deborah Oxley

_117: Twentieth Century Growth

Kevin O'Rourke and Nicholas Crafts

_116: Narrow Banking, Real Estate, and Financial Stability in the UK, c.1870-2010

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