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economists, sociologists and economic historians was both too small and woefully imprecise to describe accurately the phenomena found in the historic record. ... The absence of a satisfactory terminology for describing economic growth and development is

In order to properly assess the interplay between economic opportunities, migration, marriage markets, physical and disease environments and the resulting fertility, nuptiality and mortality rates, we need to be able to ... We therefore chose four

London, Routledge, 64-95. External activities. Chair Records of Social and Economic History Committee (British Academy 2010-2018). ... President of the Economic History Society 2007-2010. Honorary Vice-President Economic History Society 2010-.

Population, Welfare and Economic Change: launch event (5th January 2015).

See:. Other datasets. The Cambridge Group holds many other demographic, economic and political datasets relating primarily to Britain between the medieval period and the early 20th century.

The opportunity they present for extending per capita analysis into the past means that they have become a standard reference for historical demography and economic history, and have been cited in ... Why do we need to calculate population size?

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

andGraduate Workshop in Economic and Social History. The Workshop meets alternate Mondays, 1pm.

Three leading economic history journals have published free to download special issues containing articles on the history of disease, epidemics, and improvements to life expectancy:. ... A new paper by CAMPOP member Romola Davenport has been published in

committed to creating consistently coded harmonised datasets and undertaking systematic comparative work on long-run economic development. ... How the project has developed since its inception in 2000. Long-run economic development, international work,

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In European Social Science History Conference, 4-7th April, Belfast. 2017. Shaw-Taylor, L., , 'Introduction to the Transport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c. ... Economic History Annual Association Meeting, Sept. 2016. Bogart

Paper presented at Economic History Society Conference, April 2017. Bob Bennett: Are long-term entrepreneurship trends U-shaped? ... Economic transitions 1851-2011. Paper presented at Economic History Society Conference, April 2016.

This allows us to identify the range and scale of economic activities for the first time. ... Abstract. New occupational estimates provide a greatly enhanced quantitative underpinning for international comparisons of economic development.

Discussant: John Landers. Paper-givers:. Richard Hoyle: Some speculations on the stabilisation of mortality and economic development.

health investments and health outcomes', Economic History seminar, London School of Economics, March 2021. ... th. century England', Workshop on Historical Demography, London School of Economics, February 2019.

1982-2009: Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. 1993-1994: Visiting research associate, ESRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. ... Research Associate of the Global COE Research Unit for Statistical

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PST 2006. This is the version that accompanies the files that were deposited with the Arts and Humanities Data Service in 2006 which have since been transferred to the Economic and ... PST February 2010. This is the version that accompanies the files

Field, J., 'The Economic Development of Early Modern Westminster' [in progress].

the house as measured in 1901 and 1911 (controlling for other socio-economic and demographic factors) and concluded that mortality was more sensitive to housing circumstances as measured in 1901 than

Earle for his 1989 Economic History Review article on women's work in London, contributed by J.

Socio-economic and demographic profiling of doctors and patients. Aims. The first strand of this project seeks to identify, for each doctor registering deaths in the four communities, their age when ... In addition individual and collective

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The paper shows that most of rise in the relative importance of secondary sector employment, associated with British industrialisation, took place before the onset of continuous technological change and modern economic

It had potentially huge implications for understanding long-term patterns of economic growth. ... Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘The preventive check in medieval and preindustrial England’, Journal of Economic History, 72 (2012), 1015-35.

Dr Janine Maegraith, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Funding. Leverhulme Trust Grant F/09 722/A. ... The project has selected three communities with different economic structures, located in the southwest German territory of Württemberg.

2019: Keynes Fund: Cambridge University, Faculty of Economics: SME profitability in the nineteenth century. ... 2019: Economic History Society, Carnevali Small Research Grants Scheme: Women in the boardroom: The early years, to Carry van Lieshout.

This country now has much the best long-run quantitative description of its economic history of any country in the world. ... Moreover, anterior changes in occupational structure appear to be a precondition for the transition to modern economic growth.

The high demographic cost of urban centres limited the potential for urbanization, and presented a fundamental barrier to modern economic growth. ... Davenport, R.J. 2020. 'Urbanisation and mortality in Britain c.1800 - 1850', Economic History Review,

2009-2012. Economic and Social Research Council grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. ... 2006-2009. Economic and Social Research Council grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A.

Masters dissertations. 12. Auriane Terki-Mignot, M.Phil in Economic and Social History (2018). ... 4. Ellen Potter. 3. Lucy Walker - The economic development of Sussex c.1700-1881.

Edward Anthony Wrigley (Sir Tony Wrigley): Economic and Demographic Historian and Historical Geographer. ... Peterhouse 1979-2022 Professor of Population Studies, London School of Economics 1979-88; Emeritus Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1979-2022;

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The Cambridge Group holds many demographic, economic and political datasets relating primarily to Britain between the medieval period and the early 20th century.

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Emiliano Travieso, PhD candidate in History. Latin America has long served as a laboratory to study the interplay between inequality and economic development, often compared with the former colonies of North ... Through the period following the

A new economic history of the pre-steam transport revolution in England and Wales.'. ... Transport planning. Modelling transport change and its effects on trade costs and economic geography.

Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK. 2008. 'Private law and medieval village society' (Chris Briggs). ... Historical Economics Forum, Queen's University Belfast, UK. 2008. 'Medieval English peasants and the law' (Phillipp

Contact us for more details. Library catalogue. Thanks to a grant from the Economic History Society, we have been able to digitise the Cambridge Group's library catalogue.

2022. Profitability of small and medium-sized enterprises in Marshall's time: sector and spatial heterogeneity in the nineteenth century, Cambridge Journal of Economics,. ... Economic History Review: a journal of economic and social history. Bennett, R.J.

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His publications for this project include an analysis of servants in large households in rural England in the 18th and 19th centuries, which appeared in the Economic History Review in 2013,

Acknowledgements. We gratefully acknowledge the support of:. Carnevali Fund, Economic History Society.

R. SMITH (10.00-10.15): Introduction. R. WALL (10.15-10.30): 'Limitations on the role of British households as economic units'.

from the Registrar-General's Reports for England & Wales 1848-1900 (Economic and Social Data Service SN5705) ( documentation). ... Economic and Social Data Services (SN5705). 2024 University of Cambridge.

of Kilmarnock, the Hebridean Island of Skye, and the rural parishes of Torthorwald and Rothiemay, places with contrasting economic and social structures and physical environments. ... The analyses will primarily focus on the effects of different physical

Historical population geography. Introduction. Population geography is key to understanding economic growth, urbanisation and migration patterns. ... These datasets are described in Wrigley, E.A., 'English county populations in the later eighteenth

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Between 1990 and 2001 it was a Designated Research Centre (DRC) of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) affiliated with the History Faculty, with Roger Schofield as Director.