The paper provides new, more detailed evidence on the productivity of manufacturing firms across Italian local labour markets by analysing a large firm-level database covering the 1995-2006 period. The analysis identifies two types of highly agglomerated areas - large cities and industrial...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Eating People Is Wrong -- 2. "Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency" -- 3. Markets and Famines -- 4. Great Leap into Great Famine -- 5. Famine Is Not the Problem - For Now -- Bibliography -- Index

This paper explores the characteristics associated with marriages between Roman Catholics and members of other religious denominations in Ireland before the Great War. Using the entire digitized returns of the 1911 population census, we find that such marriages were relatively rare, occurring in...