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Number of items: 48.
Economic History
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2025). How long do wealth shocks persist? Less than three generations in England, 1700-2025. (Economic History Working Papers 388). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2025). Richer and more equal a new history of wealth in the West. Daniel Waldenström, (Polity Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781509557783. Hbk £25). Economic History Review, 78(3), 991 - 992. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70027
  • Cummins, Neil (2025). The causal effects of education on age at marriage and marital fertility. European Review of Economic History, 29(3), 273 - 320. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heae023 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil, Ó Gráda, Cormac (2025). The Irish in England. Journal of Economic History, 85(1), 180 - 214. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050724000536 picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2025). Hypergamy reconsidered: marriage in England, 1837-2021. PLOS ONE, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316769 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (22 January 2025) Ethnic wealth inequality in England: surprising shifts from 1858 to today. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. Explorations in Economic History, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. (Economic History Working Papers 369). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Matthew (2024). How did the European marriage pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850. Economics and Human Biology, 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101383 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). Ethnic Wealth Inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e208142
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Mathew (2024). Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800-1939. Historical Methods: a Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 57(1), 41 - 66. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2368458 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil, Gráda, Cormac (2022). Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution: Prescot and beyond. Northern History, 59(2), 216 - 238. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2022.2062085 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2022). The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016. Economic History Review, 75(3), 667 - 702. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13120 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil, Ó Gráda, Cormac (2022). The Irish in England. (Economic History Working Papers 342). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2022). The causal effects of education on age at marriage and marital fertility. (Economic History Working Papers 341). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2022). Assortative mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021. (Economic History Working Papers 337). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil, Clark, Gregory (2022). Assortive mating and the industrial revolution: England, 1754-2021. (Economic History Working Papers 337). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2021). Where is the middle class? Evidence from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892–1992. Journal of Economic History, 81(2), 359 - 404. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050721000164 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2021). Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e135482
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2020). Does education matter? Tests from extensions of compulsory schooling in England and Wales 1919-21, 1947 and 1972. (Economic History Working Papers 315). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2020). The micro-evidence for the Malthusian system. France, 1670–1840. European Economic Review, 129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103544 picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Matthew (2020). Twins support the absence of parity-dependent fertility control in pretransition populations. Demography, 57(4), 1571 - 1595. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00898-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Hidden wealth. (III Working Paper 39). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.vfgt512u12kr picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Hidden wealth. (Economic History Working Papers 301). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2019). Randomness in the bedroom: there is no evidence for fertility control in pre-industrial England. Demography, 56(4), 1541–1555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00786-2 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million. (Economic History working papers). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892-2016. (III Working Paper 30). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.70wk35wv43cs picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2017). Lifespans of the European elite, 800–1800. Journal of Economic History, 77(2), 406 - 439. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050717000468
  • Cummins, Neil, Kelly, Morgan, Ó Gráda, Cormac (2016). Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665. Economic History Review, 69(1), 3 - 34. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12098
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2015). Intergenerational wealth mobility in England, 1858-2012: surnames and social mobility. The Economic Journal, 125(582), 61 - 85. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12165
  • Cummins, Neil, Clark, Gregory, Hao, Yu, Vidal, Dan (2015). Surnames: a new source for the history of social mobility. Explorations in Economic History, 55, 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2014.12.002
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2014). Surnames and social mobility in England, 1170–2012. Human Nature, 25(4), 517-537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9219-y
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2014). Inequality and social mobility in the Era of the Industrial Revolution. In Floud, Roderick, Humphries, Jane, Johnson, Paul (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700–1870 (pp. 211-236). Cambridge University Press.
  • Cummins, Neil (2014). Longevity and the rise of the West: lifespans of the European elite, 800-1800. (Economic History working paper series 209/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2013). Intergenerational mobility in England, 1858-2012. Wealth, surnames, and social mobility. (Economic History working paper series 180/2013). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2013). Surnames and social mobility: England 1230-2012. (Economic History working paper series 181/2013). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cummins, Neil (2012). Marital fertility and wealth during the fertility transition: rural France, 1750-1850. Economic History Review, 66(2), 449-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2012.00666.x
  • Cummins, Neil (2011). Summaries of doctoral dissertations. Journal of Economic History, 71(02), 465-497. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050711001628
  • Baines, Dudley, Cummins, Neil, Schulze, Max-Stephan (2010). Population and living standards, 1945-2000. In Broadberry, Stephen, O'Rourke, Kevin. (Eds.), The Cambridge economic history of Modern Europe. Volume 2: 1870 to the Present (pp. 391-420). Cambridge University Press.
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2009). Urbanization, mortality, and fertility in Malthusian England. American Economic Review, 99(2), 242-247. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.2.242
  • Cummins, Neil (2009). Why did fertility decline?: an analysis of the individual level economics correlates of the nineteenth century fertility transition in England and France [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • International Inequalities Institute
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Hidden wealth. (III Working Paper 39). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.vfgt512u12kr picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892-2016. (III Working Paper 30). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.70wk35wv43cs picture_as_pdf
    • LSE
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). The Causal Effects of Education on Age at Marriage and Marital Fertility. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e214101
  • Cummins, Neil, Clark, Gregory (2024). Hypergamy Reconsidered: Marriage in England, 1837-2021. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e213682
  • Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Matthew, Clark, Gregory (2024). Replication Package for: How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/qnbmvm
  • Cummins, Neil, Ó Gráda, Cormac (2024). The Irish in England. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e196722v1
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2022). Assortative mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021. (Economic History Working Papers 337). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2017). Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e100492v1
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2015). Malthus to modernity: wealth, status, and fertility in England, 1500–1879. Journal of Population Economics, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-014-0509-9
  • Cummins, Neil (2013). We live in a world where social class is strongly inherited.