Economics and History

Economics and History presents six state-of-the-art surveys from some of the leading scholars in cliometrics. The contributions are all written at an accessible level for the non-specialist reader and consider a broad range of issues from this highly topical area. Written clearly and comprehensively, allowing easy accessibility for the non-specialist reader Brings together the very latest research in this highly topical subject from leading scholars Contributions cover a broad range of areas within this subject The latest publication in the highly successful Surveys of Recent Research in Economics Book Series

Notes on Contributors vi 1 Clio and the Economist: Making Historians Count 1 David Greasley and Les Oxley 2 Social Savings 21 Tim Leunig 3 Longitudinal Studies of Human Growth and Health: A Review of Recent Historical Research 47 Kris Inwood and Evan Roberts 4 Improving Human Development: A Long-Run View 87 Leandro Prados de la Escosura 5 A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 141 Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan Livingston 6 The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey 187 Timothy J. Hatton 7 Cliometrics and Time Series Econometrics: Some Theory and Applications 217 David Greasley and Les Oxley Index 289