Do the preindustrial roots of gender inequality lie in exogenous forces or also in human institutions? “Dividing the Spoils: Inheritance Institutions and Gender Inequality before Industrialization” @felixschaff.bsky.social @cepr.org ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬
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Wonderful audience and great discussion today at the Italian Economic History Association keynote on “Leviathan’s Health: State Capacity and Pestilence from the Black Death to Covid”. An honour to be invited to this excellent conference! @PrincetonUPress ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬

How did preindustrial work patterns differ between women and men? How do you even measure them? Amazing quantitative data coming out today at the Urbino conference on “Women and Men at Work in Preindustrial Europe” mobilityandhumanities.it/work/

Looking forward talking about “Leviathan's Health: State Capacity and Pestilence from the Black Death to Covid” at the ASE Conference in Venice on 4 Oct, and learning more about the newest work in Italian economic history ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬ @PrincetonUPress‬ t.co/k5DWafQAbw

Wonderful hosts and amazing audience in Edinburgh yesterday for for Adam Smith Lecture on “Market, State, and Contagion from the Black Death to Covid”. @AdamSmithHouse @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #echist

Trade privileges didn't exactly benefit the special-interest groups, either. @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress #echist press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Another great map from Davenport, Satchell & Shaw-Taylor 2018: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Institutions mattered.

Smallpox mortality was lower in rich, market-oriented southern communities that paid for pesthouses and general inoculations, rewarded people for accepting them, and benefited commercially from keeping themselves smallpox-free. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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