JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) N - Economic History (877) N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income, and Wealth (278) N34 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income and Wealth: Europe: 1913- (55)
Number of items at this level: 55.
2025
  • Becker, Bastian, Waitkus, Nora (2025). Undeserving heirs: how the origins of wealth shape attitudes towards redistribution. European Societies, 27(5), 889 - 914. https://doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00041 picture_as_pdf
  • Blinkova, A. O., Khakurel, U., Gaddy, H. G., Mamelund, S.-E., Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, M. (2025). Construction and curation of a data set of historical mental health incidence in Norway. Scientific Data, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05795-y picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2025). How long do wealth shocks persist? Less than three generations in England, 1700-2025. (Economic History Working Papers 388). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2025). Hypergamy reconsidered: marriage in England, 1837-2021. PLOS ONE, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316769 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2025). The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2025.07.012 picture_as_pdf
  • Henderson, Louis, Humphries, Jane (2025). The economic history of caring labour: a case study of breastfeeding. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graf044 picture_as_pdf
  • Rossier, Thierry, Lunding, Jacob Aagaard (2025). Forms of capital, social change and the weight of the past: the effective agents of the Swiss field of power 1910-2015. Sociology, 59(4), 761 - 781. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385251322061 picture_as_pdf
    • 2024
  • Basco, Sergi, Domènech, Jordi, Rosés, Joan R. (2024). Socioeconomic mortality differences during the Great Influenza in Spain. Economics and Human Biology, 52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101318 picture_as_pdf
  • Baten, Jörg, Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, Radatz, Laura (2024). Health insurance and height inequality: evidence from European Health Insurance Expansions. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101905 picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Mathew (2024). Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800-1939. Historical Methods: a Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 57(1), 41 - 66. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2368458 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. (Economic History Working Papers 369). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2024). Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. Explorations in Economic History, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101617 picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Seltzer, Andrew J., Wadsworth, Jonathan (2023). The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932. Explorations in Economic History, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101553 picture_as_pdf
    • 2022
  • Bukowski, Paweł, Clark, Gregory, Gáspár, Attila, Pető, Rita (2022). Social mobility and political regimes: intergenerational mobility in Hungary, 1949–2017. Journal of Population Economics, 35(4), 1551 - 1588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00875-w picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil (2022). Assortative mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021. (Economic History Working Papers 337). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2022). The causal effects of education on age at marriage and marital fertility. (Economic History Working Papers 341). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil, Ó Gráda, Cormac (2022). The Irish in England. (Economic History Working Papers 342). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2022). The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016. Economic History Review, 75(3), 667 - 702. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13120 picture_as_pdf
  • Fjaellegaard Jensen, Mathias, Manning, Alan (2022). Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1880). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Gazeley, Ian, Newell, Andrew, Reynolds, Kevin, Rufrancos, Hector (2022). How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain? Economic History Review, 75(1), 80 - 110. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13079 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Edvinsson, Sören, Ogasawara, Kota (2022). Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839. (Economic History Working Papers 340). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Seltzer, Andrew J., Wadsworth, Jonathan (2022). The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the new survey of London life and labour, 1929-32. (CEP Discussion Papers 1868). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Bukowski, Pawel, Clark, Gregory, Gáspár, Attila, Peto, Rita (2021). Social mobility and political regimes: intergenerational mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017. (III Working Papers). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.q1qwppsi42y0 picture_as_pdf
  • Bukowski, Pawel, Novokmet, Filip (2021). Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892–2015. Journal of Economic Growth, 26(2), 187 – 239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-021-09190-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2021). Where is the middle class? Evidence from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892–1992. Journal of Economic History, 81(2), 359 - 404. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050721000164 picture_as_pdf
  • Seltzer, Andrew J., Wadsworth, Jonathan (2021). The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32. (Economic History Working Papers 331). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2020
  • Glennerster, Howard (2020). The post war welfare state: stages and disputes. (Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Notes SPDORN03). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • Humphries, Jane (2020). Girls and their families in an era of economic change. Continuity and Change, 35(3), 311 - 343. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416020000247 picture_as_pdf
  • Luzardo-Luna, Ivan (2020). Labour frictions in interwar Britain: industrial reshuffling and the origin of mass unemployment. European Review of Economic History, 24(2), 243 - 263. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez001 picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Bukowski, Pawel, Novokmet, Filip (2019). Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015. (Working Paper 17). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bukowski, Pawel, Novokmet, Filip (2019). Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1628). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Hidden wealth. (Economic History Working Papers 301). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Hidden wealth. (III Working Paper 39). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.vfgt512u12kr picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million. (Economic History working papers). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cummins, Neil (2019). Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892-2016. (III Working Paper 30). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.70wk35wv43cs picture_as_pdf
  • Ritschl, Albrecht (2019). Financial destruction: confiscatory taxation of Jewish property and income in Nazi Germany. (Economic History working papers 297). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2018
  • Wilson, Kevin (2018). The Ford sewing machinists strike and the history of the struggle for equal pay. picture_as_pdf
    • 2015
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Redding, Stephen, Sturm, Daniel M., Wolf, Nikolaus (2015). The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall. Econometrica, 83(6), 2127 - 2189. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA10876
    • 2014
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2014). Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840. (Economic History Working Paper Series 207/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 2013
  • Bos, Nikita, Vonyó, Tamás (2013-02-14) Winning the war, losing the peace?: a comparative study of labour productivity in British and West German manufacturing, 1936-1968 [Other]. Modern and comparative economic history seminar, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
    • 2012
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Redding, Stephen J., Sturm, Daniel, Wolf, Nikolaus (2012). The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin wall. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP0118). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 2011
  • Corry, Dan, Valero, Anna, Van Reenen, John (2011). UK economic performance since 1997: growth, productivity and jobs. (Centre for Economic Performance special papers CEPSP24). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Sefton, Tom, Evandrou, Maria, Falkingham, Jane (2011). Family ties: women's work and family histories and their association with incomes in later life in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 40(01), 41 - 69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279410000255
    • 2010
  • Atkinson, Anthony B., Nolan, Brian (2010). The changing distribution of earnings in Ireland, 1937 to 1968. Economic History Review, 63(2), 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00498.x
  • Baines, Dudley, Cummins, Neil, Schulze, Max-Stephan (2010). Population and living standards, 1945-2000. In Broadberry, Stephen, O'Rourke, Kevin. (Eds.), The Cambridge economic history of Modern Europe. Volume 2: 1870 to the Present (pp. 391-420). Cambridge University Press.
  • Waldinger, Fabian (2010). Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany. (CEP Discussion Paper 985). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
    • 2009
  • Schulze, Max-Stephan, Fernandes, F. T. (2009). Human capital formation in Austria-Hungary and Germany: time series estimates of educational attainment, 1860-1910. In Halmos, Károly, Klement, Judit, Pogány, Ágnes, Tomka, Béla (Eds.), A Felhalmozas Míve: TöRténeti Tanulmányok KöVér GyöRgy Tiszteletére . Századvég Kiadó.
  • Waldinger, Fabian (2009). Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany. (CEP Discussion Paper 910). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
    • 2007
  • van Ark, Bart, Crafts, Nicholas (Eds.) (2007). Quantitative aspects of post-war European economic growth. Cambridge University Press.
  • Atkinson, Anthony B., Piketty, Thomas (Eds.) (2007). Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries. Oxford University Press.
    • 2005
  • Atkinson, Anthony B. (2005). Top incomes in the UK over the 20th century. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 168(2), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00351.x
  • Atkinson, Anthony B., Salverda, Wiemer (2005). Top incomes in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom over the 20th Century. Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(4), 883-913. https://doi.org/10.1162/1542476054430816
  • Platt, Lucinda, Simpson, Ludi, Akinwale, Bola (2005). Stability and change in ethnic groups in England and Wales. Population Trends, 121, 35-46.
    • 1998
  • Pischke, Jorn-Steffen (1998). Ausbildung und Lohnstruktur: Deutschland und die USA in den 80er Jahren. In Gahlen, Bernhard, Hesse, Helmut, Ramser, Hans J. (Eds.), Verteilungsprobleme Der Gegenwart: Diagnose und Therapie . Mohr Siebeck (Firm).
    • 1993
  • Nickell, Stephen (1993). Cohort size effects on the wages of young men in Britain 1961-89. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP0120). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.