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_064: `Because they are too menny...` children, mothers, and fertility decline: The evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Jane Humphries

_063: Educational Disparity in East and West Pakistan, 1947-71: Was East Pakistan Discriminated Against?

M Asadullah

_062: The Quiet Transport Revolution: Returns to Scale, Scope and Network Density in Norway`s Nineteenth-Century Sailing Fleet

Regina Grafe and Camilla Brautaset

_061: Exploring Changes in Earnings Inequality during Industrialization: Barcelona, 1856-1905

Natalia Mora-Sitja

_060: The Markup for Lemons: Quality and Uncertainty in American and British Used-Car Markets c.1953-1973

Avner Offer

_059: How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the `Ndrangheta in Northern Italy

Federico Varese

_058: Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices, and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

Richard H. Steckel

_057: Endogenous Growth and Exogenous Shocks in Latin America During the Twentieth Century

Pablo Astorga, Ame R. Bergés and Valpy Fitzgerald

_056: Unemployment and Real Wages in Weimar Germany

Nicholas Dimsdale, N.H. Horsewood and A. van Riel

_055: Popish habits vs. nutritional need: Fasting and fish consumption in Iberia in the early modern period

Regina Grafe

_054: The Standard of Living in Latin America During the Twentieth Century

Ame R. Bergés and Valpy Fitzgerald

_053: Evolution of Corporate Governance in Global Industries: The Case of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages

Teresa Lopes

_052: Productivity Growth in Latin America during the Twentieth Century

Valpy Fitzgerald, Pablo Astorga and Ame R. Bergés

_051: Risk and risk management in English agriculture, c.1750-1850

David R. Stead

_050: Individual, Illegal, and Unjust Purposes`: Overseers, Incentives, and the Old Poor Law in Bolton, 1820-1837

Robert Dryburgh

_049: The Source of Walras`s Idealist Bias: A Review of Koppl`s Solution to the Walras Paradox

Alexandre Debs

_048: Does Industrialisation Push up Inequality? New Evidence on the Kuznets Curve from Nineteenth-Century Prussian Tax Statistics

Oliver Grant

_047: Productivity in German Agriculture: Estimates of Agricultural Productivity from Regional Accounts for 21 German Regions: 1880/4, 1893/7 and 1905/9

Oliver Grant

_046: Bull is Half the Herd: Property Rights and Enclosures in England, 1750-1850

Elaine Tan

_045: Labour and Wages in Pre-Industrial Catalonia

Natalia Mora Sitja

_044: Why has the Public Sector Grown so Large in Market Societies? The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, c. 1870-2000

Avner Offer

_043: Top Incomes in the United Kingdom Over the Twentieth Century

Anthony Atkinson

_042: Lord Overstone and the Establishment of British Nineteenth-Century Monetary Orthodoxy

Walter  Eltis

_041: A Plea for Errors

Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas

_040: Positive Feedback in Collective Mobilization: The American Strike Wave of 1886

Michael Biggs

_039: A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire

Peter Temin

_038: Who Bought the Inter-War Semi? The Socio-Economic Characteristics of New-House Buyers in the 1930s

George Speight

_037: State Intervention in English Education, 1833-1891: A Public Goods and Agency Approach

Martin West

_036: Variations in Churchgoing Rates in England in 1851: Supply-side Deficiency or Demand-led Decline?

Alasdair  Crockett

_035: Where theres Muck theres Brass The Market for Manure in the Industrial Revolution

Liam Brunt

_034: Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-Being, [revised version, March 2000]

Avner Offer

_033: Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of Our Ignorance

Paul David and Gavin Wright

_032: An Arbitrage Model in Crop Rotation in 18th Century England

Liam Brunt

_031: General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution

Paul David and Gavin Wright

_030: Volunteers for Development: A Test of the Post-Materialist Hypothesis in Britiain, c. 1965-1987

Matthew Braham

_029: Estimating English Wheat Production in the Industrial Revolution

Liam Brunt

_028: London Clubs in the Late Nineteenth Century

Antonia Taddei

_027: The Diffusion of the Herringbone Parlour: A Case Study in the History of Agricultural Technology

Oliver Grant

_026: An Arduous and Unprofitable Undertaking: The Enclosure of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire

David Stead

_025: Epidemics of Abundance: Overeating and Slimming in the USA and Britain since the 1950s

Avner Offer

_024: Altruism:The Importance of Being Asked. The Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe

Federico Varese and Meir Yaish

_023: From Keeping Natures Secrets to the Institutionalization of Open Science

Paul David

_022: New Answers to Old Questions: Transport Costs and the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire

Tim Leunig

_021: Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London

Hans-Joachim Voth

_020: Path Dependence and the Quest for Historical Economics: One More chorus of Ballad of QWERTY

Paul David

_019: Nature or Nurture? Explaining English Wheat Yields in the Agricultural Revolution

Liam Brunt

_018: Neutrality and Mediterranean Shipping Under Danish Flag, 1750-1807

Hans-Joachim Voth and Dan H. Andersen

_017: Human Bonding: Parents and Their Offspring in Early Modern England

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

_016: Unemployment and Non-Employment in Interwar Britain

Ed Butchart

_015: Business men and Land Purchase in Late Nineteenth Century England

Tom Nicholas

_014: 1935 Sanctions Against Italy: Would Coal and Crude Oil Have Made a Difference

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia

_013: The German Railways - The Economic and Political Feasibility of Fiscal Reforms During the Inflation of the Early 1920s

Norbet Paddags

_012: The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Segregation in Post-War Britain

David M. Engstrom

_011: The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s

Avner Offer

_010: The Randlord's Bubble 1894-6: South African Gold Mines and Stock Market Manipulation

Wayne Graham

_009: Conjectures and Contrivances: Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Britain,During the Industrial Revolution

Charles Feinstein

_008: Why Did Working Hours Increase in Eighteenth-Century London? Labour Supply Decisions and Consumer Durables During the Industrial Revolution

Hans-Joachim Voth

_007: Technological Lock-in and the Power Source for the Motor Car

James Foreman-Peck

_006: How Long was the Working Day in London in the 1750s? Evidence from the Courtroom

Hans-Joachim Voth

_005: Real Income and Economic Welfare Growth in the Early Republic or, Another Try at Getting the American Story Straight

Paul David

_004: The Stroudwater Canal Company and its Role in the Mechanisation of the Gloucestershire Woollen Industry, 1779-1840

Philip Grover

_003: Between the gift and the market: the economy of regard

Avner Offer

_002: Turning Water into Wine New Methods of Calculating Farm Output and New Insights into Rising Crop Yields during the Agricultural Revolution

Liam Brunt

_001: Did Smallpox Reduce Height? Stature and the Standard of Living in London, 1770-1873

Hans-Joachim Voth and Timothy Leunig