Recent research has explored the distributive consequences of major historical epidemics,
and the current crisis triggered by COVID-19 prompts us to look at the past for insights about …

The Black Death was the most devastating demographic shock in recorded human history.
However, the effects in the European population were highly asymmetrical as were its …

Abstract Today, Latin American countries are characterized by relatively high levels of
economic inequality. This circumstance has often been considered a long-run consequence …

This paper studies long economic series to assess the long-lasting effects of pandemics. We
analyze if periods that cover pandemics have a change in trend and persistence in growth …

Why did the countries that first benefited from access to the New World–Castile and Portugal–
decline relative to their followers, especially England and the Netherlands? The dominant …

New data are used to construct a time series of real GDP in Germany for the period 1500–
1850 using an indirect output estimation technique that relies on wages, prices, and sectoral …

We construct a new series of GDP per capita for France for the period 1280–1850 using the
demand-side approach. Our estimates point to a long-run stability of the French economy …

Gender discrimination has been pointed out as a determining factor behind the long-run
divergence in incomes of Southern vis-à-vis Northwestern Europe. In this paper, we show …

The quest for precious metals and trade routes during the early modern period
fundamentally changed the world. What was the global impact of the large deposits of silver …

Using an original microeconomic database with information for around 200,000 individuals,
this paper creates new estimates of internal migrations in Spain in a key moment of its …