Working Papers 2025

No. 387 The Holy Roman Empire at Bay: financing the defence against the Ottomans, c.1560-1610
Oliver Volckart
No. 386 Build Better Health: Evidence from Ireland on housing quality and mortality
Alan de Bromhead, Ronan C. Lyons and Johann Ohler
No. 385 Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as a tool for historical demography
Melanie Meng Xue
No. 384 The Terminal Revolution: Reuters and Bloomberg as global providers of financial and economic news, 1960-2020
Gerben Bakker
No. 383 The Limits of Lordly Production: the management of working horses on the Manor of Barnhorn, 1325-1494
Jordan Claridge
This is an updated version of WP350, published February 2023
No. 382 Smithian Growth in Britain Before the Industrial Revolution
David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce and Patrick Wallis
No. 381 Managing Exchange Risk: Foreign monies and private trade finance in pre-modern long-distance trade (or why did bills of exchange not circulate beyond Europe?)
Includes introduction to special issue of Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (CUP), forthcoming
Alejandra Irigoin
No. 380 Born in Smog: The short- and long-run health consequences of acute air pollution exposure in historical London, 1892-1919
Eric Schneider
No. 379 Predictive Modeling the Past
Meredith Paker, Judy Z. Stephenson and Patrick Wallis
No. 378 Pandemics, Capital Allocation and Structural Change
Sergi Basco and Joan R, Roses
No. 377 What is the case fatality rate of smallpox?
Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport
No. 376 The Short- and Long-run Effect of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China
Melanie Meng Xue and Boxiao Zhang
No. 375 The Commercialization of Labour Markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita and Spike Gibbbs
Revised September 2025

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