Economic History Review

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

The results point to broader entitlement failures driven by weak market connectivity amidst military & economic warfare.

A second dataset on wartime wages was also used to estimate nutritional standards. These combined data suggest a very low nutritional status of urban unskilled wage labourers.

Now on Early View: 'Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9'. By Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret & Pim de Zwart. @IngriddeZwarte @WUR @RHI_WUR #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Tt shows that both house prices & rents inflated significantly during the 1920s but moderated thereafter & even deflated during the 1930s housing boom.

Now on Early View: 'Measuring the interwar housing boom: House prices and rents in England, 1913–39'. By Antoninus M. Samy. @PCEconDept @ProvidenceCol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…