Week 6 lecture on alternative measures of living standards

In the following list, the items in grey should be considered of lesser importance. They concern topics I decided we didn't have time for (nutrition), or weren't "alternative measures" (income inequality); or they are sources I used for data discussed in the lecture which you don't need to read; or they are too long and general to be of practical use to you. Compared with the list circulated to you earlier, I have added Deaton's Great Escape and Sen's Development as Freedom (which I think is better than the Sen book I originally cited).

A'Hearn, Brian, Joerg Baten, and Dorothee Crayen, "Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age-Heaping and the History of Human Capital," Journal of Economic History, vol. 69 no. 3 (2009), pp. 783-808.

Case, Anne, and Christina Paxson, "Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 116 no. 3 (2008), pp. 499-532.

Cinnirella, Francesco, "Optimists or pessimists? A reconsideration of nutritional status in Britain, 1740-1865," European Review of Economic History, vol. 12 (2008), pp. 325-54.

Crafts. Nicholas, "The Human Development Index, 1870-1999: Some revised estimates," European Review of Economic History, vol. 6 no. 3 (Dec. 2002), pp. 395-405.

Deaton, Angus. The Great Escape. Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton: Princeton UP. Chs. 1-2 (3-4 also good).

De Vries, Jan. The Industrious Revolution. Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.

Diebolt, Claude, and Michael Haupert, eds. Handbook of Cliometrics. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016. Ch. "Age-Heaping-Based Human Capital Estimates" (pp. 131-73), by Baten and Tollnek.

Feinstein, Charles, "Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain During and After the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Economic History, vol. 58 no. 3 (1998), pp. 625-58.

Feinstein, Charles, "The Rise and Fall of the Williamson Curve," Journal of Economic History, vol. 48 (1988), pp. 699-729.

Floud, Roderick, Robert Fogel, Bernard Harris, and Sok Chul Hong. The Changing Body. Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Hatton, Timothy, and Bernice Bray, "Long-run trends in the heights of European men, 19th-20th centuries," Economics and Human Biology, vol. 8 (2010), pp. 405-13.

Huberman, Michael and Chris Minns, "The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 44 (2007), pp. 538-67

Komlos, John and Inas Kelly. The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.

Lindert, Peter, and Jeffrey Williamson. Unequal Gains. American Growth and Inequality since 1700. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016.

Logan, Trevon, "Nutrition and Well-Being in the Late Nineteenth Century," Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 no. 2 (2006), pp. 313-41.

Meredith, David, and Deborah Oxley, "Food and Fodder: Feeding England, 1700-1900," Past and Present, no. 222 (2014), pp. 163-214.

Milanovic, Branko. Global Inequality. A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2016. Ch. 2 ("Inequality Within Countries").

Offer, Avner. The Challenge of Affluence. Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. Chs. 2 ("Economic Welfare Measurement and Human Well-Being") , and 12 ("Inequality Hurts") .

Sen, Amartya. Inequality Reexamined. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.

Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. Chs. 1-4.

Steckel, Richard, "Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 46 (2009), pp. 1-23.

Steckel, Richard, "Stature and the Standard of Living," Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 33 (Dec. 1995), pp. 1903-40.

Vecchi, Giovanni. Measuring Wellbeing. A History of Italian Living Standards. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. Chs. 2 ("Height"), 3 ("Health"), 5 ("Education"), 12 ("Human Development"). (The rest is good too!)