The European Historical Economics Society

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Historical Monetary Strategies: Achieving Long-Term Price Stability in Medieval Sweden Abstract. This paper examines how medieval Swedish minting authorities (1277–1540) appear to have maintained relative price stability despite repeated deba

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A new article and blog post

"Historical Monetary Strategies: Achieving Long-Term Price Stability in Medieval Sweden"

By R. Edvinsson and R. Svensson

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@ingridvandijk.bsky.social shows strong inequality in under-five child mortality marked by intergenerational persistence of child mortality in Zeeland, 1835-1919. The intergenerational similarities are not explained by socioeconomic status or place of residence.

A new article and blog post:

"Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919"

From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)

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This case shows how labour institutions can reinforce gender inequality—even when aiming for justice.
Understanding these early dynamics helps us ask:
What kind of equity do today’s unions promote?

Why?
Early unions—led by men—often marginalised women’s demands to prioritise the male breadwinner model.
Even where women organised, like in Yecla, their wage outcomes lagged behind.

Results?
✅ Unionisation raised men’s wages—sometimes substantially.
❌ Women’s wages did not improve.
The gender wage gap widened after unions emerged.

We built sector-level panel data: wages, union membership (by gender), and control groups from non-unionised sectors.
Using a difference-in-differences approach, we tested the effects of unionisation on wages.

We analysed Yecla (1895–1935), a rural yet industrialising town in south-east Spain.
It was dynamic, politically active, and home to one of the few rural feminist labour movements of the time.

At the dawn of the 20th century, women in a small Spanish agro-town formed a feminist workers' group.
Unions were emerging. Wages were rising.
But not for everyone.
Our study asks: did early unions help close the gender wage gap—or widen it?

New article and blog post now available:

Women’s Union Awakening: Early Impacts on Gender Wage Gaps (Yecla, Spain, 1895-1935)

P Beneito, J J García-Gómez & A Martínez-Soto show unions raised men’s wages—but not women’s, widening the gap. Early unions were ineffective advocates for female workers.

The study examines State intervention into the British patent system during the Napoleonic Wars, and finds that the British military used the patent system to secure access to experimental technologies.

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Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831 Abstract. In 1794, the British State intervened in the patent system by introducing the Navy proviso, a legal proviso targeted at select patents compelling

A new article and blog post!

"Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831"

By Stephen Billington (@steve-bill-econ.bsky.social) and Joe Lane

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Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉

Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.

#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

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The Edwardian property slump, a significant yet underexplored event in British economic history, saw a dramatic decline in house prices in London between 1900 and 1914. A recent study by Antoninus M. Samy uses novel data sources to shed light on the extent and implications of this downturn.

Measuring the Edwardian Property Slump: House Prices and Rents in Residential London, 1895–1914 Abstract. The Edwardian property slump was a major housing downturn that affected London before the First World War; however, existing house price indices

New paper and blog post!

"The Edwardian Property Slump: An Historical Analysis (1895-1914)"

By A. M. Samy

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This workshop is co-organised by
@pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬.

Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...

Now on Early View:
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social ‪@yaleemd.bsky.social‬
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At long last, my full book manuscript is off to the publisher for the final time. 18 months of 5am wake-ups have resulted in 110,000 words about Americans long, contentious struggle to come to terms with George Washington and slavery. Forthcoming from @uncpress.bsky.social in 2026!

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social
Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce”
📌 €25,000/year + fees
📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed
📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025

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#PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

The Award Committee will select three finalists, who will be invited to present their work at the EHES Conference 2025 in Hohenheim.
We look forward to your submissions.
#EconomicHistory #PhDOpportunity #EHES2025 #GinoLuzzattoAward

📘 Eligibility: PhD theses defended between July 2023 and June 2025
📩 Submit: A 3-page abstract (including a short motivation letter) and the full dissertation to ehes2025@uni-hohenheim.de