. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 ; Bowley …

-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth … increasing poverty, with the poor becoming poorer. However, it is levels, not changes, of poverty which are found to be a key … waterway. The paper also fails to find evidence of increasing poverty or famine severity being a result of overpopulation. …

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …

that when poverty constrains schooling, unconditional cash transfers amplify a household's demand for education by reducing …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley's poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree's estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …