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.
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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • Basco, Sergi, Roses, Joan R. (2025). Pandemics, capital allocation and structural change. (Economic History Working Papers 378). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • Broadberry, Stephen (2013). Accounting for the great divergence. (Economic History Working Papers 184/13). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • 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
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • Checchi, Daniele (2001). Education, inequality and income inequality. (DARP 52). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • Crafts, Nicholas (1999). Quantitative economic history. (Economic History working papers 48/99). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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.
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • 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. picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Collider bias in economic history research. Explorations in Economic History, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101356 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
  • 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 picture_as_pdf
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  • Goodhart, Charles, Hudson, Michael (2018). Could/should jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? (Discussion papers DP12605). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain). picture_as_pdf