Living Standards and Distribution

General

Gallardo-Albarran, Daniel and Herman De Jong, "Optimism or pessimism? A composite view on English living standards during the Industrial Revolution," European Review of Economic History, forthcoming (2020). (Not yet in print but available from the EREH website.)

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

Allen, Robert, "Engels' pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the British industrial revolution," Explorations in Economic History, vo. 46 (2009), pp. 418-35.

Further reading or discussed in lecture

Allen, R., "Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867," Economic History Review, vol. 72, no. 1 (2019), pp. 88-125.

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, "Slow Real Wage Growth during the Industrial Revolution: Productivity Paradox or Pro-Rich Growth?" CAGE working paper no. 474 (May 2020).

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.

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

Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence Katz, "The Race Between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005," NBER Working Paper no. 12984 (2007).

Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence Katz, "The Returns to Skill in the United States Across the Twentieth Century," NBER Working Paper no. 7126 (1999).

These are now chapters of their book The Race Between Education and Technology (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap/Harvard UP, 2010),

Milanovic, Branko, "Inequality Within Countries," Ch. 2 in Global Inequality. A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, B. Milanovic (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2016), pp. 46-117.

Milanovic, Branko, Peter Lindert, and Jeffrey Williamson, "Pre-Industrial Inequality," Economic Journal, vol. 121 (March, 2011), pp. 255-72.

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2014. Chs. 5, 6, 8.

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

Vecchi, Giovanni, et al. Measuring Wellbeing. A History of Italian Living Standards. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. Chs. 2 (Height), 3 (Health), 8 (Inequality).


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