British Living Standards

Research Papers

 

Forthcoming / Recent Publications:

Ian Gazeley, "Income and Living Standards, 1870-2010" in Floud, R and Johnson, P (ed) The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol.2 (forthcoming, 2013)

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell 'The transformation of hunger revisited', IZA DP No. 7275, http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=7275, Submitted to The Journal of Economic History

Rebecca Searle, 'Is there anything real about real wages? A history of the official British cost of living index, 1914-1962', submitted 2013. Searle_abstract_2013 [PDF 6.59KB]

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, 'Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904', IZA DP No. 6988, (Nov., 2012) http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=6988 under revision for resubmission to Economic History Review

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, 'The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition' IZA Discussion Paper No. 6855, http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=6855 Submitted to Oxford Economic Papers

Ian Gazeley & Nicola Verdon, "The first poverty line? Davies and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in 18th century England" in Explorations in Economic History, (Sept., 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2012.09.001

Ian Gazeley & Sara Horrell, "Nutrition in the English agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century", Economic History Review, (2012) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2012.00672.x/abstract

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, ‘The impact of WWI on consumer expenditure of British working households’, European Review of Economic History, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2013), pp. 71-94.

Ian Gazeley & Claire Langhammer, ‘'The Meanings of Happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton', History Workshop Journal (Autumn 2012), Issue 74

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, ‘The End of Destitution’, Oxford Economic Papers (2011), 64 (1), pp.80-102  doi:10.1093/oep/gpr032

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, ‘Poverty in Edwardian Britain’, Economic History Review (2011), 64 (1), pp. 52-71 and published early on-line  doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00523.

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell & Peter Scott, 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’, European Review of Economic History, Vol.15, 01 (2011) pp.127-151 and early on-line 23 November 2010 doi:10.1017/S1361491610000195   

Ian Gazeley, ‘Women’s Pay in British Industry during World War Two’ Economic History Review (2008), 63:3, pp.651-671.

N.F.R. Crafts, Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell (Eds.), Work and Pay in Twentieth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Ian Gazeley, ‘Manual Work and Pay in Britain 1900-65’ in N.F.R. Crafts, Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell (Eds.), Work and Pay in Twentieth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.55-56.

Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell, 'Unemployment in Britain (with Andrew Newell, University of Sussex) in N.F.R. Crafts, Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell (Eds.), Work and Pay in Twentieth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp.225-264.

Ian Gazeley, ‘The Levelling of pay in Britain during The Second World War’ European Review of Economic History (2006), 10, pp.175-204.

Andrew Newell, 'Introduction to a symposium in honour of Michael Lipton', Journal of Development Studies (2012), 48 (2). pp. 183-186.

Robert Eastwood, Michael Lipton & Andrew Newell 'Farm Size' in: Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural Development: Farm Policies and Regional Development, Elsevier North-Holland (2010), pp. 3323-3397.

Andrew Newell and Mieczyslaw W. Socha, 'The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion', Economics of Transition (2007), 15 (4). pp. 733-758.

Andrew Newell & Francesco Pastore, 'Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland', Eastern European Economics, (2006), 44 (3). pp. 5-28.

 

Discussion Papers:

2013 Newell, A, 'A note comparing estimates of headcount poverty rates and Gini coefficients from grouped data with those from individual data': Note on income distribution using grouped data [PDF 128.91KB]

2012 Newell, A and Gazeley, I 'The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition'. http://ftp.iza.org/dp6855.

2010  Gazeley, I.S. and Newell, A.T., 'The First World War and Working Class Food Consumption in Britain' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1708743

2009 Gazeley, I.S. and Newell, A.T., 'No Room to Live: Overcrowding in Edwardian Cities' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1078888

2009 Gazeley, I.S. and Newell, A.T., 'The End of Destitution' http://ftp.iza.org/dp4295.pdf

2008 Gazeley, I.S, and Newell, A.T, 'Overcrowding in British Cities in 1904' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1078888

2008 Gazeley, I.S, and Newell, A.T 'Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1022926