Recommended readings (Machine generated): Allen, R. (2005), 'English and Welsh agriculture, 1300-1850: outputs, inputs and income'. URL: http://economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk/13622/1/Allen%20-%20English%20and%20Welsh%20agriculture.pdf -- Allen, R. (2007), 'Pessimism preserved: real wages in the British industrial revolution', Oxford University Department of Economics Working Paper 314. URL: http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/working_papers/paper314.pdf -- Barker, D.J.P., Eriksson, J.G., Forsén, T. and Osmond, C. (2002), 'Fetal origins of adult disease: strength of effects and biological basis', International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 1235-9 -- Bell, F. and Millward, R. (1998), 'Public health expenditures and mortality in England and Wales 1870-1914', Continuity and Change, 13, 221-49 -- Bleakley, H. (2007), 'Disease and development: evidence from hookworm eradication in the American South', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122 (1), 73-117 -- Bleakley, H. (2010), 'Malaria eradication in the Americas: a retrospective analysis of childhood exposure', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (2), 1-45 -- Brickman, P. and Campbell, D. (1971), 'Hedonic relativism and planning the good society', in M.H. Appley, ed., Adaptation-level Theory: a Symposium, New York: Academic Press, 287-302 -- Broadberry, S., Campbell, B., Klein, A., Overton, M. and Van Leeuwen, B. (2011), 'British economic growth, 1270-1870'. URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/seminars/ModernAndComparative/papers2011-12/Papers/Broadberry.pdf -- Cain, L. (1970), 'The sanitary district of Chicago: a case study in water use and conservation', Journal of Economic History, 30 (1), 256-61 -- Chadwick, E. (1842), Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, Edited, with an Introduction, by M.W. Flinn, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1965 edition) -- Clark, G. (2001), 'Farm wages and living standards in the industrial revolution, England, 1670-1850', Economic History Review, 54, 477-505 -- Clark, G. (2005), 'The condition of the working class in England, 1209-2004', Journal of Political Economy, 113, 1307-40 -- Clark, G., Huberman, M. and Lindert, P. (1995), 'A British food puzzle, 1770-1850', Economic History Review, 48, 215-37 -- Costa, D.L. (1998), The Evolution of Retirement: an American Economic History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press -- Crimmins, C. and Finch, E. (2004), 'Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in lifespans', Science, 305, 1736-9 -- Davidson, A.R. and Reid, A.R. (1927), 'On the calculation of rates of mortality', Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries, 11, 183-232 -- Deaton, A. (2005), 'The great escape: a review essay on Fogel's The escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100', NBER Working Paper 11308. URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w11308 -- Derrick, V.P.A. (1927), 'Observations on (1) errors of age in the population statistics of England and Wales, and (2) the changes in mortality indicated by the national records', Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 58, 117-59 -- Eveleth, P. and Tanner, J. (1976), Worldwide Variation in Human Growth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1st edition).