Abstract. The role of the colonial state and of missions in the running of African educational systems evolved heterogeneously across and within empires. D

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Abstract. Do minimum wages create spatial mismatches in local labour markets by affecting migration decisions? National wage floors are often motivated by

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Abstract. Drawing on 20,000 monthly quotations, this study revises Imperial Brazil’s inflation and living standards estimates. The new price index eliminat

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Abstract. The aim of this article is to assess whether growing up in a household that deviated from the male-breadwinner norm had negative consequences acr

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Abstract. How did centralized fiscal institutions emerge? This study investigates the relationship between state capacity and tax farming—tax collection by

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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...

Abstract. The 1807 Slave Trade Act banned slave imports across the British Empire, triggering a sharp supply shock. Using newly digitised tax censuses from

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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

Abstract. We investigate the relationship between rural and urban pre-industrial labor markets building a new series of real wages of building and agricult

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Abstract. This paper uses data from a nationwide Swedish health insurance society (1912–1914) to explore how gendered rural and urban living conditions sha

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. This paper examines how medieval Swedish minting authorities (1277–1540) appear to have maintained relative price stability despite repeated deba

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