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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between leases and income, and the agricultural sector’s output, during the Pampas expansion in Argentina (1895–1947). The findings sho...

The second half of the nineteenth century is often associated with the disappearance of peddling in Europe, as a result of urbanization and the proliferati

Gold dust was introduced as legal tender in Ashanti during Osei Tutu’s reign, which ended around 1712. During the nineteenth century, gold dust ran short in Ashanti principally because of the changing...

Abstract. In 1794, the British State intervened in the patent system by introducing the Navy proviso, a legal proviso targeted at select patents compelling

Abstract. The Edwardian property slump was a major housing downturn that affected London before the First World War; however, existing house price indices

The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...

Abstract. I study the economic returns to migration among Swedish immigrants in the United States in 1900 and 1910, by social class. Using linked data from

S. J. Butlin Prize The S.J. Butlin Prize is awarded for the best PhD or Masters thesis in Australian and New Zealand economic history.

The Economic History Unit at the Department of Economics, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), is excited to offer support to a postdoctoral researcher in preparing a grant proposal for the Fundación ...

Abstract. This study presents a new wage series for the textile factories established by the Ottoman state between 1848 and 1900. The data reveal that the

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Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u

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Abstract. The relationship between gender inequality and occupational segregation is a fascinating puzzle. New microdata on all primary school teachers in

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Abstract. This paper investigates the historical roots of business familism in Southern Italy. Using a social network analysis and employing surnames as pr

Abstract. We provide a blueprint for constructing measures of state capacity in premodern states, offering several advantages over the current state of the

Abstract. The Spanish welfare state is strongly biased toward sustaining the elderly’s welfare, rather than children’s. We study the evolution of that bias

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