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31: A Tale of Two Commons: Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Long-Term Development of the Commons in Western and Eastern Europe, 1000-1900

Miguel Laborda Pemán and Tine De Moor

30: GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: The national accounts of a slave-based society

Johan Fourie and Jan Luiten van Zanden

29: The late-medieval economic decline of ‘old’ monasteries and abbeys in Western Europe: inevitable or avoidable?

Daniel Curtis

28: From hardship to benefit: A critical review of the nuclear hardship theory in relation to the emergence of the European Marriage Pattern

Annemarie Bouman, Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tine De Moor

27: An Island Drifting Apart: Why Haiti mires in poverty while the Dominican Republic forges ahead

Ewout Frankema and Aline Masé

26: The development of inequality and poverty in Indonesia, 1932-1999

Bas van Leeuwen and Péter Földvári

25: The contribution of migration to economic development in Holland and the Netherlands 1510-1900

Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen and Jan Luiten van Zanden

24: Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

23: Capital accumulation and growth in Central Europe, 1920-2006

Bas van Leeuwen and Péter Földvári

22: Labour Productivity and human capital in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic, c. 1672-1815

Jelle van Lottum and Jan Luiten van Zanden

21: The Role of Human Capital in the Process of Economic Development: The Case of England, 1307-1900

Alexandra de Pleijt

20: Between Conquest and Independence: Real Wages and Demographic Change in Spanish America, 1530-1820

Leticia Arroyo Abad, Elwyn Davies and Jan Luiten van Zanden

19: When the heart is baked, don’t try to knead it”: Marriage age and spousal age gap as a measure of female ‘agency

Sarah Carmichael, Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

18: An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of the Huating-Lou Area, 1823–29

Bohzong Li

17: Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

Gianfranco Di Vaio, Daniel Waldenström and Jacob Weisdorf

16: The Art of Counting - Reconstructing numeracy in the middle and upper classes on the basis of portraits in the early modern Low Countries

Tine De Moor and Jaco Zuijderduijn

15: Marriage and Power: Age at first marriage and spousal age gap in Lesser Developed Countries

Sarah Carmichael

14: The Malthusian Intermezzo - Women’s wages and human capital formation between the Late Middle Ages and the Demographic Transition of the 19th century

Jan Luiten van Zanden

13: Real wages at the Cape of Good Hope: A long-term perspective, 1652-1912

Pim de Zwart

12: French Revolution or Industrial Revolution? A Note on the Contrasting Experiences of England and France up to 1800

Paul Sharp and Jacob Weisdorf

11: Small is beautiful. On the efficiency of credit markets in late medieval Holland

Jaco Zuijderduijn, Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

10: Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run

Morten Jerven

9: Settler Skills and Colonial Development

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

8: Spending, saving, or investing? Risk management in sixteenth-century Dutch households

Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tine De Moor

7: A History With Evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

6: The Organisation of Markets as a Key Factor in the Rise of Holland, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries. A Test Case for an Institutional Approach

Bas J.P. Van Bavel, Jessica Dijkman, Erika Kuijpers and Jaco Zuijderduijn

5: The Origins of Formal Education in sub-Saharan Africa - Was British Rule More Benign?

Ewout Frankema

4: The Character of growth before 'modern economics growth'? The GDP of Holland between 1347 and 1807

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen

3: Markets in pre-industrial societies:storage in Hellenistic Babylonia in the English mirror

Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen and Reinhard Pirngruber

2: African Real Wages in Asian Perspective, 1880-1940

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

1: The Changing Shape of Global Inequality - exploring a new dataset

Jan Luiten van Zanden, Joerg Baten, Péter Földvári and Bas van Leeuwen