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50-Years Inland Waterway Freight Data in the Rhine-Alpine Corridor. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Data
Turpijn B   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

Eleven quick tips for organizing a data cleaning challenge. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Comput Biol
Kal IJ   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this feature by providing the first study of unsuccessful patent applications in England during the first industrial revolution.
Stephen D. Billington, Joe Lane
wiley   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cut from the same cloth? investigating the personality of interventional and surgical cardiovascular specialists. [PDF]

open access: yesLangenbecks Arch Surg
Sier VQ   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation of chemicals demands assessment of risks rather than identification of hazards only. [PDF]

open access: yesArch Toxicol
Marx-Stoelting P   +22 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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