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Moving from opportunity: Intergenerational mobility of rural–urban return migrants in Sweden, 1890s–1940s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using a novel longitudinal dataset, we study the intergenerational mobility of rural–urban migrants who returned to the countryside in due course. By examining pairs of brothers during the entire migration lifecycle – from childhood until age 34 – we estimate the effect of temporarily relocating to an urban area on occupational income over the
Jonatan Andersson
wiley   +1 more source

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the Comprehensive Teaching the History of the Medieval Turkic People on National Education

, 2014
Nurbolat Bogenbayev
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The Wool Trade in English Medieval History [PDF]

Power, Eileen
core  

Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land distribution within the same locality across a long period.
Daniel R. Curtis, Bram van Besouw
wiley   +1 more source

The history of uveitis: from antiquity to the present day. [PDF]

Eye (Lond)
Ghadiri N.
europepmc   +1 more source

On the history of Ukrainian philosophy (Vilen Gorskiy as methodologist of historical and philosophical medievalism in Ukraine)

, 2014
Tatiana Tselik
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical Stories on the Medieval and Early Modern Stage: A Transnational Approach. [PDF]

J Bible Its Recept
Bloemendal J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sri Lanka

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Angelique Richardson
wiley   +1 more source