JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696)

N - Economic History (877)

N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income, and Wealth (278)

N30 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income and Wealth: General, International, or Comparative (Migration) (45)

Number of items at this level: 45.

Accounting

Liu, Dr Ziang (2024). Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530-1840. Explorations in Economic History, 92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101569

Centre for Economic Performance

Bukowski, Paweł (2018). How history matters for student performance: lessons from the Partitions of Poland. Journal of Comparative Economics, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2018.10.007

Iaria, Alessandro, Schwarz, Carlo, Waldinger, Fabian (2017). Frontier knowledge and scientific production: evidence from the collapse of international science. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1506). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.

Machin, Stephen, Van Reenen, John (2008). Changes in wage inequality. In Durlauf, Steven N., Blume, Lawrence E. (Eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (pp. 658-666). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230226203.1808

Olivetti, Claudia, Petrongolo, Barbara (2017). The economic consequences of family policies: lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(1), 205-230. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.31.1.205

Economic History

London School of Economics and Political Science. Department of Economic History (2012-02-02) World human development: 1870‐2007 [Other]. Modern and Comparative Economic History Seminar, London, United Kingdom, GBR.

Bamji, Alex (2014). Medical care in early modern Venice. (Economic History Working Paper Series 188/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basco, Sergi, Domenech, Jordi, Roses, Joan R. (2020). The Redistributive Effects of Pandemics: Evidence of the Spanish Flu. (Department of Economic History Working papers Working Papers 2020 308). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basco, Sergi, Roses, Joan R. (2025). Pandemics, capital allocation and structural change. (Economic History Working Papers 378). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basco, Sergi, Domenech, Jordi, Roses, Joan R. (2021). The redistributive effects of pandemics: evidence on the Spanish flu. World Development, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105389

Broadberry, Stephen (2013). Accounting for the great divergence. (Economic History Working Papers 184/13). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ceylan, Pinar (2022). Measuring and explaining rural inequality in a pre-industrial setting: income inequality in sixteenth-century Ottoman Manisa. (Economic History Working Papers 346). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cirenza, Peter (2015). Geography and assimilation: a case study of Irish immigrants in late nineteenth century America. (Economic History working paper series 215/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Clark, Gregory (2023). The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(27). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300926120

Crafts, Nicholas (1999). Quantitative economic history. (Economic History working papers 48/99). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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

Gazeley, Ian, Holmes, Rose, Newell, Andrew, Reynolds, Kevin, Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector (2022). Escaping from hunger before WW1: the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century. Cliometrica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4

Hutková, Karolina (2023). Review of periodical literature for 2021: (iv) 1700–1850. Economic History Review, 76(1), 361 - 367. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13232

Irarrázaval, Andrés (2020). The fiscal origins of comparative inequality levels: an empirical and historical investigation. (Economic History Working Papers 314). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Ziang (2022). Wages, labour market, and living standards in China, 1530-1840. (Economic History Working Papers 339). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morgan, Mary S. (2015). Glass ceilings and sticky floors: drawing new ontologies. (Economic History Working Papers 228/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.

Morgan, Mary S. (2017). Glass ceilings and sticky floors: drawing new ontologies. In Chemla, K., Fox Keller, E. (Eds.), Cultures Without Culturalism in the Making of Scientific Knowledge . Duke University Press.

O'Brien, Patrick (2018). Cosmographies for the discovery, development and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge in pre-industrial Europe and Late imperial China: a survey and speculation. (Economic History working papers 289). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pirohakul, Teerapa, Wallis, Patrick (2014). Medical revolutions? The growth of medicine in England, 1660-1800. (Economic History Working Paper Series 185/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schneider, Eric B. (2023). Plagues upon the earth: disease and the course of human history. By Kyle Harper, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. pp. 1–686. ISBN 9780691192123. Hbk £30.00. Economic History Review, 76(3), 979 - 981. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13268

Schneider, Eric B. (2021). The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919. (Economic History Working Papers 328). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schneider, Eric B., Davenport, Romola (2025). What is the case fatality rate of smallpox? (Economic History Working Papers 377). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Collider bias in economic history research. Explorations in Economic History, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101356

Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Sample-selection biases and the historical growth pattern of children. Social Science History, 44(3), 417 - 444. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.10

Schneider, Eric B. (2022). The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919. History of the Family, https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2021.2007499

Economics

Aghion, Philippe, Jaravel, Xavier, Persson, Torsten, Rouzet, Dorothee (2019). Education and military rivalry. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(2), 376 – 412. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy022

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra, Green, Elliott D. (2012). The reversal of fortune thesis reconsidered. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(7), 817-831. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.648621

Broadberry, Stephen, Custodis, Johann, Gupta, Bishnupriya (2015). India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871. Explorations in Economic History, 55, 58-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2014.04.003

Machin, Stephen, Van Reenen, John (2008). Changes in wage inequality. In Durlauf, Steven N., Blume, Lawrence E. (Eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (pp. 658-666). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230226203.1808

Tertilt, Michèle, Doepke, Matthias, Hannusch, Anne, Montenbruck, Laura (2022). The economics of women’s rights. Journal of the Economic Association, 20(6), 2271 – 2316. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac059

Financial Markets Group

Goodhart, C. A. E., Pradhan, Manoj (2020). The great demographic reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation revival. (SUERF Policy Notes 197). SUERF The European Money and Finance Forum.

Goodhart, Charles, Hudson, Michael (2018). Could/should jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? (Discussion papers DP12605). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).

Kabiri, Ali, James, Harold, Landon-Lane, John, Tuckett, David, Nyman, Rickard (2021). The role of sentiment in the economy: 1920 to 1934. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 800). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pradhan, Manoj, Goodhart, C. A. E. (2024). Fiscal risks in an ageing world and the implications for monetary policy. Financial and Economic Review, 23(4), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.33893/FER.23.4.69

International History

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra, Green, Elliott D. (2012). The reversal of fortune thesis reconsidered. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(7), 817-831. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.648621

Lin, Ziruo (2025). From ideology to economy: how Confucianism and the Protestant ethic molded cultural norms, institutions, and divergent paths in Imperial China and early modern Europe. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences, 222, 133 - 137. https://doi.org/10.54254/2754-1169/2025.gl27593

International Inequalities Institute

Acciari, Paolo, Alvaredo, Facundo, Morelli, Salvatore (2023). The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995–2016. (III Working Paper 88). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.t9jbakawhj93

Acciari, Paolo, Alvaredo, Facundo, Morelli, Salvatore (2024). The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995-2016. Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(3), 1228 - 1274. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae002

Bühlmann, Felix, Christesen, Caroline Ahler, Cousin, Bruno, Denord, François, Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman, Lagneau‐Ymonet, Paul, Larsen, Anton Grau, Savage, Mike, Thine, Sylvain & Young, Kevin et al (2025). Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED). British Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 663 - 673. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13203

Management

Acs, Zoltan J., Terjesen, Siri (2013). Born local: toward a theory of new venture’s choice of internationalization. Small Business Economics, 41(3), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-012-9446-8

Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam (2013). The political economy of educational content and development: lessons from history. Journal of Development Economics, 104, 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.04.004

STICERD

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra, Green, Elliott D. (2012). The reversal of fortune thesis reconsidered. The Journal of Development Studies, 48(7), 817-831. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.648621

Checchi, Daniele (2001). Education, inequality and income inequality. (DARP 52). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.

Sociology

Bühlmann, Felix, Christesen, Caroline Ahler, Cousin, Bruno, Denord, François, Ellersgaard, Christoph Houman, Lagneau‐Ymonet, Paul, Larsen, Anton Grau, Savage, Mike, Thine, Sylvain & Young, Kevin et al (2025). Varieties of economic elites? Preliminary results from the World Elite Database (WED). British Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 663 - 673. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13203