Economic History Review

It examines why many English patent applications between 1783 and 1834 failed. Using new archival data, it shows that costly & strategically manipulated opposition procedures likely shaped who secured patents, with implications for how innovation was filtered in the early system

Now on Early View: 'Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834'. By Stephen D. Billington & Joe Lane. @UlsterBizSchool @HenleyBSchool #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

The implication of this for tenurial change are explored.

This article offers the first national survey of the extreme weather conditions & the associated economic crisis of the 1430s across England, one consequence of which was severe disruption to the customary land market which lasted for the next three decades.

Now on Early View: 'Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change'. By Mark Bailey. @uniofeastanglia #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

How empowered were women in pre-industrial East Asia? A study for Japan, 1600–1890, finds low gender wage gaps at 0.7. However, these women were not empowered due to low wage levels and the widespread land ownership by men, but not women. This may be why they married universally.

Now on Early View: 'Women's wages and empowerment: Pre-industrial Japan, 1600–1890'. By Yuzuru Kumon and Kazuho Sakai. @YuzuruKumon @ManUniEconomics @TohokuUniPR #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Its findings also provide, for the first time, a full picture of the totality of Scotland’s economy over the last 70 years by incorporating an estimate of North Sea oil and gas gross value added from within Scotland’s territorial waters.

Through this work it offers new insights on the performance of the post-war Scottish economy, including its relative performance to the UK and its industrial makeup.

Now on Early View: '70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018'. By Graeme Roy, Niall G. MacKenzie & Sandy Stewart. @ProfGraemeRoy @sandystew28 @UofGAsbs @StrathBusiness #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Sellers being in urgent financial situations is positively correlated with the sales price.

Results from hedonic ordinary and quantile regressions reveal unique housing price determinants tied to the region’s cultural background: property orientation, proximity to ancestral halls and Buddhist temples, and seller’s gender.

Now on Early View: 'Long-run housing price indices and determinants: New data from Huizhou, China, 1570–1949'. By Siyu Pan. @WAFrankeCollege @NAU #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

This paper studies merchant apprenticeship based on records from sixteenth-century Germany. It contributes to literatures on human capital formation and the institutional foundations of pre-modern long-distance trade.

Now on Early View: 'Training as a club good: Merchant apprenticeship in sixteenth-century Europe'. By Esther Sahle. @UCPH_Research @koebenhavns_uni onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

The latter had better opportunities to smooth consumption over the life cycle by setting money aside, although manual-worker households that survived into old age had some capacity for small savings, which may have eased but not offset the decline.

Manual-worker households suffered a more pronounced decline in income during these later years than non-manual-worker households.

Now on Early View: 'Life-cycle living standards of male-headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80'. By Anton Svensson. @LuEconHist onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh… #EHS100