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Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leonardo and the Whale

open access: yes, 2019
Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
wiley   +1 more source

Countryside Survey 1990: main report. (Countryside 1990 vol.2) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Barr, C. J.   +10 more
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Resource effects of COVID‐induced work‐from home: A qualitative study of parental and non‐parental white collar workers in Germany

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany is a corporate environment that is sceptical towards digitalization and work‐from‐home, and in which it is customary to separate professional and personal spheres of life. The COVID‐19 pandemic, and ensuing government‐mandated shutdowns, changed all that by inducing extensive work‐from‐home conditions for most of the white collared ...
Jasmin Mahadevan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Japan: Internal migration and population decline

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Examining the interdependencies between internal migration and national population decline in Japan, this paper begins by analysing the impacts of internal migration on national fertility decline, for example, through the early post‐World War II flows from high‐fertility countrysides to low‐fertility cities. It then focuses on the way in
Tony Fielding
wiley   +1 more source

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