Motivated by the ongoing debate on food security and the global trend of adopting new
emerging technologies in the aftermath of COVID-19, this research focuses on the …

This paper uses new archival sources to study the long-term tendencies in economic
inequality in preindustrial southern Italy (Kingdom of Naples). The paper reconstructs long …

This paper analyses economic inequality in central Catalonia in the early 1720s using the
information contained in cadastral tax records. The data set includes 2617 male taxpayers …

While studies indicate that economic inequality increased in the early modern period, it is
debated whether this applied to all regions, and what the causes of change were. This paper …

The paper analyzes family-level wealth inequality and social mobility in Dudelange
(Luxembourg) over five generations between 1766 and 1872, a period that saw the end of …

Abstract Using 1.6 m marriages, 1837–1939, and a genealogy of 428,000 people 1600–
2022, we estimate three new occupational status indices for England 1800–1939. The first …

We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the eighteenth century to study the
role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of social standing is …

We analyze the case of pro-pluvia rogations (PPR) performed by the Catholic Church in
Murcia, Spain since 1600. PPR were ceremonies to ask God for rain. We show a structural …

When did marriage become strongly assortative? Is it a recent development, a consequence
of increased female employment and a cause of rising inequality? A long run perspective is …

Through the course of the present work, will-making in Hermannstadt between 1720 and
1800 has been elevated as a canvass, upon which political, social, and economic trends …