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Kuznets and de Vries have argued that excessive urban mortality rates precluded modern economic growth, with its concomitant rapid urbanisation, because no population could produce a rural population surplus sufficient to ... Economic History Review, 64(4

18 Jan 2010: economic historians today.15 Certainly few, if any, trades actually required seven years to learn. ... an investment in the future economic wellbeing of their children. The paternal background of Lucy Tyler's and Elinor Mosely's apprentices and the value

and economic change, and the extent to which different locations in England shared the same short-term experience of mortality.

Search site. You are in: Home » Research » Transport »andTransport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c.1670-1911. ... Isaac Newton Trust grant. Transport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c.1670-1911.

of its kind in the world – has transformed the landscape for research work in the economic, social, and demographic history of this country during a period of profound change in the

LACHOS was launched in the 6. th. Latin American Economic History Congress (Santiago de Chile, July 2019) by Marc Badia-Miró (Universitat de Barcelona), Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Emiliano Travieso (both ... Over the last two decades scholars have

However, we have created datasets relating to many other socio-economic variables within a harmonised GIS framework which means that all the variables can be related to each other at a ... This forms part of a longer-term plan to create a research data

response by entrepreneurs to economic circumstances (Crouzet), 'ultimately a dead-end' (Lévy-Leboyer), or even a pure invention (Dormois).

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.

Shaw-Taylor and E. A. Wrigley, namely: 'The changing occupational structure of nineteenth century Britain' (RES-000-23-1579), and 'Male occupational change and economic growth in England 1750-1851' (RES ... K. Edwards, 'The economic development of

The Occupational Structure of Britain Research program is collaborating with the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus to study the economic development of Canada. ... The long-term aim is to follow this work with a second study, 1951 to the

International and comparative work: comparing Britain's occupational structure with that of other countries allows us to appreciate whether and, if so, in what ways Britain's economic development was 'special'.

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

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

Davenport, R.J., Boulton, J., and Schwarz, L., 2016. 'Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox in eighteenth century cities: a reply to Razzell', Economic History Review, 69(1): 188-214.

The underlying aim of the project is to improve our understanding both of the first Industrial Revolution and of the centuries of economic development which preceded it and to put our

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

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

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

th. September, at Robinson College, Cambridge. We would like to acknowledge generous support for the meeting from the Economic History Society, the British Academy and the Ellen MacArthur Trust Cambridge. ... We would also like to acknowledge generous