Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...

We show the incidence of mental ill-health has been rising especially among the young in the years and especially so in Scotland. The incidence of mental ill-health among young men in particular, started rising in 2008 with the onset of the Great Recession and for young women around 2012. The...

"A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date. -David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas...

1. The Gupta Empire – 400AD to 600AD -- 2. Chalukya and Kamataa: King Pulakeshin – 543AD to 753AD -- 3. The Pallava Dynasty -275AD to 897AD -- 4. The Chola Dynasty – 846AD to 1215AD -- 5. The Delhi Sultanate – 1226AD to 1526AD -- 6. The Mughal Dynasty – 1526AD to 1857AD -- 7. The...