JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) N - Economic History (877) N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income, and Wealth (278) N35 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income and Wealth: Asia including Middle East (41)
Number of items at this level: 41.
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  • Ahmad, Ehtisham (2009). Fiscal policy instruments and the political economy of designing programs to reach the poorest. (Working Paper 25). Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Alazzawi, Shireen, Dang, Hai-Anh, Hlasny, Vladimir, Abanokova, Kseniya, Behrman, Jere (2025). Female headship and poverty in the Arab region: analysis of trends and dynamics based on a new taxonomy. Social Indicators Research, 180(2), 1067 - 1202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03697-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Artunç, Cihan, Saleh, Mohamed (2023). The demand for extraterritoriality: religious minorities in nineteenth- century Egypt. Economic History Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13302 picture_as_pdf
  • Assaad, Ragui, Ginn, Thomas, Saleh, Mohamed (2023). Refugees and the education of host populations: evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan. Journal of Development Economics, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103131 picture_as_pdf
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2013). Labour-intensity and industrialization in colonial India. In Austin, Gareth, Sugihara, Kaoru (Eds.), Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History . Routledge.
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  • Besley, Timothy, Burgess, Robin, Esteve-Volart, Berta (2013). The policy origins of poverty and growth in India. In Besley, Timothy, Cord, Louise J. (Eds.), Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons From Country Experiences (pp. 59-79). World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6515-1
  • Besley, Timothy, Levenson, Alec (1996). The role of informal finance in household capital accumulation: evidence from Taiwan. The Economic Journal, 106(434), 39-59.
  • Broadberry, Stephen (2013). Accounting for the great divergence. (Economic History Working Papers 184/13). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Broadberry, Stephen, Custodis, Johann, Gupta, Bishnupriya (2015). India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871. Explorations in Economic History, 55, 58-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2014.04.003
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  • Ceylan, Pinar (2022). Measuring and explaining rural inequality in a pre-industrial setting: income inequality in sixteenth-century Ottoman Manisa. (Economic History Working Papers 346). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Chen, Yuyu, Naidu, Suresh, Yu, Tinghua, Yuchtman, Noam (2015). Intergenerational mobility and institutional change in 20th century China. Explorations in Economic History, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2015.07.001 picture_as_pdf
  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota, Cole, Tim (2021). Health shocks, recovery and the first thousand days: the effect of the Second World War on height growth in Japanese children. Population and Development Review, 47(4), 1075 - 1105. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12444 picture_as_pdf
    • D
  • Deng, Kent (2021). Ultra-low tax regime in Imperial China, 1368-1911. (Economic History Working Papers 324). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2014). Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840. (Economic History Working Paper Series 207/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent, Shen, Jim Huangnan, Guo, Jingyuan (2022). Performance and mechanisms of the Maoist economy: a holistic approach, 1950-1980. (Economic History Working Papers 345). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Deng, Kent (2015). Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China. (Economic History working paper series 213/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Wang, Yuton, Guo, Jingyuan, Deng, Kent (2023). Inputs, outputs and living standards in rural China during the 1920s and 30s: a quantitative analysis. (Economic History Working Papers 359). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
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  • Francks, Penelope, Hunter, Janet (Eds.) (2011). The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet (2011). Introduction: the historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000. In Hunter, Janet, Francks, Penelope (Eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet (2011). People and post offices: consumptions and postal services since the 19th century. In Hunter, Janet, Francks, Penelope (Eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan.
    • G
  • Gao, Pei, Schneider, Eric B. (2019). The growth pattern of British children, 1850-1975. (Economic History working papers 293). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Gisselquist, Rachel M., McDoom, Omar Shahabudin (2015). The conceptualization and measurement ofethnic and religious divisions: categorical, temporal, and spatial dimensions with evidencefrom Mindanao, the Philippines. (WIDER Working Paper 2015/022). World Institute for Development Economics.
  • Go, Sun, Park, Ki-Joo (2012-10-11) The elite-biased growth of elementary schooling in colonial Korea [Paper]. Modern and comparative economic history seminar, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Goodhart, Charles, Hudson, Michael (2018). Could/should jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? (Discussion papers DP12605). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain). picture_as_pdf
  • Gupta, Bishnupriya, Swamy, Anand (2012-10-18) Unfree labour: did indenture reduce labour supply to tea plantations in Assam? [Other]. Modern and Comparative Economic History Seminar Series, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Ogasawara, Kota, Gazeley, Ian, Schneider, Eric B. (2020). Nutrition, crowding and disease among low-income households in Tokyo in 1930. Australian Economic History Review, 60(1), 73 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12189 picture_as_pdf
    • H
  • Hu, Sijie (2020). Survival of the Confucians: social status and fertility in China, 1400-1900. (Economic History Working Papers 307). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet, Ogasawara, Kota (2016). Price shocks in disaster: the Great Kantō Earthquake in Japan,1923. (Economic History Working Papers 253/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
    • K
  • Krenz, Astrid, Strulik, Holger (2025). Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India. Journal of Population Economics, 38(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-025-01124-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Kumon, Yuzuru, Saleh, Mohamed (2023). The Middle-Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth-century Egypt. Economic History Review, 76(4), 1231-1258. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13242 picture_as_pdf
    • M
  • Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop (2011). Stepping out of Palanpur: employment outside Palanpur. (Working Paper 46). Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • N
  • Nishizaki, Sumiyo (2019). Economic experiences of Japanese civilian repatriates in Hiroshima prefecture, 1945-1956. (Economic history working papers 299). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Nishizaki, Sumiyo (2022). From Manchuria to post-war Japan knowledge transfer through in-house training at the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR). (Economic History Working Papers 336). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
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  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota (2017). Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: assessing instantaneous changes in growth and changes in the growth pattern, 1911-39. (Economic History Working Papers 265/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
  • Schneider, Eric B., Ogasawara, Kota (2018). Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917-39. Explorations in Economic History, 69, 64-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.05.001
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  • Pamuk, Sevket (2012). Political power and institutional change: lessons from the Middle East. Economic History of Developing Regions, 27(s1), S41-S56. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2012.657481
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  • Roy, Tirthankar (2007). Globalization, factor prices, and poverty in colonial rural India. Australian Economic History Review, 47(1), 73-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00197.x
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  • Saleh, Mohamed (2024). Trade, slavery, and state coercion of labor: Egypt during the first globalization era. Journal of Economic History, 84(4), 1107 - 1141. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205072400038X picture_as_pdf
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  • Xue, Melanie (2025). Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as a tool for historical demography. (Economic History Working Papers 385). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Xue, Melanie (2026). Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history. Explorations in Economic History, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101734 picture_as_pdf
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  • Yuchtman, Noam (2017). Teaching to the tests: an economic analysis of traditional and modern education in late imperial and republican China. Explorations in Economic History, 63, 70-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2016.11.003 picture_as_pdf