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83: Gender Equality in a Historical Perspective: Introducing the Historical Gender Equality Index

Selin Dilli, Sarah Carmichael and Auke Rijpma

82: Danger To The Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act And The Regime Shift To Paper Money, 1797-18211

Patrick K. O’Brien and Nuno Palma

81: Benchmarking the Middle Ages. XV century Tuscany in European Perspective

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Emanuele Felice

80: Apprenticeships and craft guilds in the Netherlands, 1600–1900

Ruben Schalk

79: Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses about the Reversal of Fortune in EurAsia

Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Sarah Carmichael

78: What can’t money buy? Wellbeing and GDP since 1820

Auke Rijpma

77: Global Absolute Poverty: Begin the Veil of Dollars

Michail Moatsos

76: Climate shocks, cash crops and resilience: Evidence from colonial tropical Africa

Kostadis Papaioannou and Michiel de Haas

75: Circumventing credible commitment: GroningenÕs default and the Dutch RepublicÕs federal escape route, 1666-1761

Alberto Feenstra

74: Enter the ghost: cashless payments in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1800

Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker

73: Quantity versus Quality: Household structure, number of siblings, and educational attainment in the long nineteenth century

Sarah Carmichael, Auke Rijpma and Lotte van der Vleuten

72: Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics

Auke Rijpma and Sarah Carmichael

71: Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present

Gareth Austin, Ewout Frankema and Morten Jerven

70: Reply to Tracy Dennison and Sheilagh Ogilvie: The European Marriage pattern and the Little Divergence

Sarah Carmichael, Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Tine De Moor

69: Immovable capital goods in medieval Muslim lands: why water-mills and building cranes went missing

Bas J.P. Van Bavel, Eltjo Buringh and Jessica Dijkman

68: Better understanding disasters by better using history: Systematically using the historical record as one way to advance research into disasters

Bas J.P. Van Bavel and Daniel Curtis

67: Towards an ethnographic understanding of the European Marriage Pattern: Global correlates and links with female status

Sarah Carmichael and Jan Luiten van Zanden

66: The historical determinants of language status in Sub-Saharan Africa

Katalin Buzasi

65: Breaking the piggy bank: What can historical and archaeological sources tell us about late-medieval saving behaviour?

Jaco Zuijderduijn and Roos van Oosten

64: An early knowledge economy: the adoption of paper, human capital and economic change in the medieval Islamic Middle East, 700-1300 AD

Maya Shatzmiller

63: Urbanization in China, ca. 1100–1900

Xu Yi, Bas van Leeuwen and Jan Luiten van Zanden

62: Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933

Shi Zhihong Yuping, Xu Yi, Ni Yuping and Bas van Leeuwen

61: Growth under extractive institutions? Latin American per capita GDP in colonial times

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Jan Luiten van Zanden

60: A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011

Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf

59: A latent democracy measure 1850-2000

Péter Földvári

58: Grammar of difference? Labour policies and social norms on work and gender in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1800-1940

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

57: Human Capital Formation from Occupations: The ‘Deskilling Hypothesis’ Revisited

Alexandra de Pleijt and Jacob Weisdorf

55: Books do not die: the price of information, Human Capital and the Black Death in the long fourteenth century

Eltjo Buringh

53: What did retirement cost back then? The evolution of corrody prices in Holland, c. 1500-1800

Jaco Zuijderduijn

52: Can women count? Gender and numeracy in nineteenth-century Ireland

Matthias Blum, Christopher Colvin, Laura McAtackney and Eoin McLaughlin

51: Should we call for a doctor? Households, consumption and the development of medical care in the Netherlands, 1650-1900

Heidi Deneweth and Patrick Wallis

50: Low Income Inequality, High Wealth Inequality.The Puzzle of the Rhineland Welfare States

Bas J.P. Van Bavel and Ewout Frankema

49: Coins as gauge for growth: VOC- doits to probe Java’s deep monetisation, 1700-1800

Alberto Feenstra

48: Capital formation and economic growth under central planning and transition: a theoretical and empirical analysis, ca. 1920-2008

Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen and Dmitry Didenko

47: Quantifying the integration of the Babylonian economy in the Mediterranean world using a new corpus of price data, 400-50 BC

Robartus van der Spek and Bas van Leeuwen

46: Accounting for the ‘Little Divergence’ What drove economic growth in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800?

Alexandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden

45: The standard of living in ancient societies: a comparison between the Han Empire, the Roman Empire, and Babylonia

Bas van Leeuwen, Jieli Li and Reinhard Pirngruber

44: Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland

Jaco Zuijderduijn

43: East of Eden: Polish living standards in a European perspective, ca. 1500-1800

Mikołaj Malinowski

42: Real estate and financial markets in England and the Low Countries, 1300–1800

Christiaan van Bochove, Heidi Deneweth and Jaco Zuijderduijn

41: Early Capitalism in the Low Countries

Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker

40: Single, safe, and sorry? An analysis of the motivations of women to join the early modern beguine movement in the Low Countries

Tine De Moor

39: Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Heidi Deneweth, Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker

38: The Role of Female Agency in Politics: A Global Study, 1850-2000

Selin Dilli

37: Picking Winners? The Effect of Birth Order and Migration on Parental Human Capital Investments in Pre-Modern England

Marc Klemp, Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis and Jacob Weisdorf

36: The Formative Years of the Modern Corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623

Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong and Joost Jonker

35: A dataset on human capital in the former Soviet Union area; Sources, methods, and first results*

Dmitry Didenko, Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen

34: Reconsidering the Mediterranean ‘agro-town’ model and escaping a vision of an ‘unchanging’ Italian South

Dan Curtis

33: Where do ideas come from? Book production and patents in global and temporal perspective

Aurelian Plopeanu, Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen and Jan Luiten van Zanden

32: Soldiers and booze: The rise and decline of a Roman market economy in north-western Europe

Eltjo Buringh, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Maarten Bosker