-collar professionals and blue-collar workers across the entire period, including the Civil War decade, while farmers suffered in the …

We study a number of large international military conflicts sinceWorld War II where we establish a news analysis as a … proxy for theestimated likelihood that the conflict will result in a war. We findthat in cases when there is a pre-war phase …, an increase in the warlikelihood tends to decrease stock prices, but the ultimate outbreakof a war increases them. In …

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status(SES) and health of older … Europe (SHARE) in 2009. This survey provides detaileddata on events in childhood including those during the war as well as … several measures ofexposure to war shocks such as experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in localareas, and hunger …

history, the narrative is largely a fiction; produced not by doctors, but by poets, writers, and local historians. Eyam … the creation of heritage and history. This paper examines the process by which this narrative emerged and was repeatedly …

-century Europe is among the major questions in economic history, but it is still poorly understood. A plausible explanation of … history of the basic cognitive limitations to how technical knowledge can be expressed, processed, and transmitted have yet to …

This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an …

This paper explores the location of industry in pre-World-War-I Britain using a model that takes account both of factor …