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The Downton Abbey Effect : 18th and 19th Century British Aristocratic Marriages and Agricultural Prices

Taylor, Mark P. - 2021

In the four decades leading up to World War I, a significant proportion of British aristocrats married daughters of newly rich American business magnates. I provide a quantitative economic analysis of this phenomenon in the deeper context of British aristocratic marriages during the 18th and...

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The consumer movement, health, and the pharmaceutical industry

Taylor, David - 1983

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Macroeconomic conditions and health in Britain : aggregation, dynamics and local area heterogeneity

Janke, Katharina; Lee, Kevin; Propper, Carol; Shields, … - 2020

to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions for those of working age over the period 2002-2016. We find strong … and robust counter-cyclical relationships for overall chronic health, and for five broad types of health conditions …. Chronic health conditions therefore increase in poor economic times. There is considerable spatial heterogeneity across local …

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Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution : Prescot and beyond

Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

The role of skills and human capital during England's Industrial Revolution is the subject of an old but still ongoing debate. This paper contributes to the debate by assessing the artisanal skills of watchmakers and watch tool makers in southwest Lancashire in the eighteenth century and their...

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Safety at sea during the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac; Solar, Peter M. - 2019

Shipping was central to the rise of the Atlantic economies, but an extremely hazardous activity: in the 1780s, roughly five per cent of British ships sailing in summer for the United States never returned. Against the widespread belief that shipping technology was stagnant before iron...

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The Wheels of Change : Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization

Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf; van der Beek, Karine - 2020

This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and on industrialization, in the context of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. It shows that wrights, a group of highly skilled mechanical craftsmen, who specialized in water-powered machinery in...

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Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic Evidence from Antidepressant Prescriptions in General Practices in England

Mentzakis, Emmanouil; Ornaghi, Carmine; Ortiz de … - 2022

We use data of antidepressants prescribed by general practices to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on mental health … general practice health services caused by the pandemic. For this, we construct a counterfactual group using prescription data …

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The economics of pharmaceutical industry

Reekie, W. Duncan - 1975

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Evolution comparée de la consommation de médicaments dans 5 pays européens entre 2000 et 2004 : analyse de 7 classes pharmaco-thérapeutiques

Viens, Gérard; Levesque, K.; Chahwakilian, P.; … - 2007

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Preisbildung von Arzneimitteln im internationalen Vergleich

Drabinski, Thomas; Eschweiler, Jan; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2008

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