Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Reynolds, Kevin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household...