Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

Existing long‐run consumer price indices for England rely on a fixed consumption basket.
Here we construct a methodologically improved, chained‐Laspeyres price index for ordinary …

This study provides new estimates on welfare ratios for London, Amsterdam, Paris,
Strasbourg, Munich, and Leipzig for 1600–1850. I use a linear programming model to …

This article presents new estimates of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We
use a vast array of primary and secondary sources to assemble two new databases on …

Using a database of about 375,000 individual observations, which represent over two
million days worked, this article studies building workers' remunerations and how labour …

This paper argues that the quality of employment—whether workers are employed in 'good
jobs'—is an important aspect of wellbeing, and constructs an index to measure historical …

Records of long‐eighteenth‐century English wage rates exhibit almost absolute nominal
rigidity over many decades, alongside significant dispersion between the wages paid by …

This study relies on a linear programming model to estimate welfare ratios in Spain between
1600 and 1800. This method is used to find the food basket that guaranteed the intake of …

While real male wages can be used to measure input costs, they do not provide accurate
measures of the standard of living. This paper uses detailed accounts of nineteenth‐century …

Records of long-eighteenth-century English wage rates exhibit almost absolute nominal
rigidity over many decades, alongside significant dispersion between the wages paid by …