Humphries, Jane

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Article

Henderson, Louis, Humphries, Jane (2026). The economic history of caring labour: a case study of breastfeeding. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 41(3-4), 745 - 762. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graf044

Humphries, Jane (2026). The market for skill: apprenticeship & economic growth in early modern England. Patrick Wallis, (Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN:9780691265315. Hbk $45.00/£38.00). Economic History Review, 79(1), 380 - 382. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70081

Humphries, Jane (2025). Respectable standards of living: the alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270-1860. Economic History Review, 78(2), 613 - 645. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13357 picture_as_pdf

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2024). Forgotten family: the influence of women and children on the nexus of wage earning and demographic change in England, 1260–1860. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 54(3), 529 – 558. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333387 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane (2024). Careworn: the economic history of caring labor. The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 319 - 351. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050724000147 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane, Thomas, Ryah (2023). The best job in the world: breadwinning and the capture of household labor in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British coalmining. Feminist Economics, 29(1), 97 - 140. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2022.2128198 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane (2022). Book review: Agents of reform. Child labor and the origins of the welfare state by Elisabeth Anderson. Critical Social Policy, 42(3), 550 - 552. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101161

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2022). Beyond the male breadwinner: life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850. Economic History Review, 75(2), 530 - 560. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13105 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane, Schneider, Benjamin (2021). Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(3), 428 - 438. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane (2020). Girls and their families in an era of economic change. Continuity and Change, 35(3), 311 - 343. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416020000247 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane, Schneider, Benjamin (2020). Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen dagger: a response to Robert Allen. Economic History Review, 73(4), 1137-1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12963 picture_as_pdf

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2020). Malthus’s missing women and children: demography and wages in historical perspective, England 1280-1850. European Economic Review, 129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103534 picture_as_pdf

Horrell, Sara Helen, Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2020). Family standards of living over the long run, England 1280-1850. Past and Present, 250(1), 87–134. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaa005 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2019). Unreal wages? Real income and economic growth in England, 1260-1850. The Economic Journal, 129(623), 2867 - 2887. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez017

Humphries, Jane, Horrell, Sara (2019). Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280-1860. Explorations in Economic History, 73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2019.04.001 description

Humphries, Jane, Schneider, Benjamin (2019). Spinning the industrial revolution. Economic History Review, 72(1), 126 - 155. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12693

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Sneath, Ken (2015). Consumption conundrums unravelled. Economic History Review, 68(3), 830 - 857. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12084 picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane (2013). The lure of aggregates and the pitfalls of the patriarchal perspective: a critique of the high wage economy interpretation of the British industrial revolution. Economic History Review, 66(3), 693-714. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2012.00663.x

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Tim (2009). Cities, market integration and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth century England and Wales. Economic History Review, 62(2), 458-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00458.x

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Timothy (2009). Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? Explorations in Economic History, 46(1), 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2007.08.001

Chapter

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Sneath, Ken (2013). Cupidity and crime: consumption as revealed by insights from the Old Bailey records of thefts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Casson, M. & Hashimzade, N. (Eds.), Large Databases in Economic History: Research Methods and Case Studies (pp. 246 - 267). Routledge.

Dataset

Humphries, Katherine Jane (2024). Respectable Standards of Living: The Alternative Lens of Maintenance Costs, Britain 1270-1860. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11126811

Humphries, jane (2024). Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e199041

Working paper

Humphries, Jane (2023). Respectable standards of living: the alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270-1860. (Economic History Working Papers 353). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Horrell, Sara, Humphries, Jane, Weisdorf, Jacob (2020). Life-cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260-1850. (Economic History Working Papers 310). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Tim (2007). Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London. (Economic History Working Papers 101/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.