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The Life of a Mariner in Eighteenth-Century Bristol: A Case Study of Higher-Value Probate Inventories

Okabe, Yoshihiko - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2013

Anyone studying the eighteenth-century probate inventories of Bristol soon notices that the largest occupation group was mariner. However, as an occupation, mariner is exceedingly difficult to define and understand. The purpose of this paper is to reveal what the job of a mariner was by...

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Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558 - 1914

Ogilvie, S.; Küpker, M.; Maegraith, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...

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Real Wages and the 'Malthusian Problem' in Antwerp and South-Eastern England, 1400 - 1700: A regional comparison of levels and trends in real wages

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from … real wages for these craftsmen in Antwerp did not suffer the same deterioration as did comparable real wages in England … levels of the real wages were not shown. Most economic historians have attributed that significant fall in real wages …

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Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...

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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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Interest rates, sanitation infrastructure, and mortality decline in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Chapman, Jonathan - 2021

This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data...

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The First Real Estate Bubble? Land Prices and Rents in Medieval England C. 1300-1500

Bell, Adrian R. - 2018

This paper tests for speculative bubbles in the medieval English property market based on a unique hand-collected dataset from the feet of fines spanning the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We focus on asset types where there are sufficiently large numbers of transactions each year to make a...

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A Reappraisal of the Freehold Property Market in Late Medieval England

Bell, Adrian R. - 2018

This paper re-examines the late medieval market in freehold land, the extent to which it was governed by market forces as opposed to political or social constraints, and how this contributed to the commercialisation of the late medieval English economy. We employ a valuable new resource for...

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On English pygmies and giants : the physical stature of English youth in the late-18th and early-19th centuries

Komlos, John - 2005

The physical stature of lower- and upper-class English youth are compared to one another and to their European and North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16. The poverty-stricken English children were shorter for...

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When Is an Oligarchy Formed? The Origins and Evolution of an Elite. Barcelona 1850-1920

Sanjuan Marroquin, Jose Miguel - 2016

This paper tracks the origins and inner changes of Barcelona's economic elite in the long term. The objective is to achieve a deeper understanding of the mechanism that families and individuals developed to gain access to the elites and retain their economic position. For doing so, the paper...

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