All persons in Sweden, classified as white or blue collar workers in the 1960 Population Census, were followed up for the period 1961-1973 with regard to the occurrence of cancer. The SMRs were calculated for 50 tumour sites and it was found that the crude classification of occupations into...

The lack of appropriate production data has hitherto hampered any attempt in estimating changes in labour productivity in pre-industrial economies. The method applied here estimates labour productivity by making inferences from available information on changes in the occupational structure,...

This paper exploits microdata from parish registers in a rural Tuscan village to trace the relationship between experienced and expected child mortality on household fertility strategies. It turns out that spacing of births and hence completed fertility are not only linked to economic risks and...

This paper addresses two issues. It documents the changes in the publication strategy of the members of the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen over the last 50 years, away from a broad domestic audience to the international community of peers and scholars. From having been only...

This paper traces the evolution of the international market for wheat from an emerging market structure after the repeal of the Corn Laws to a mature market characterized by efficient arbitrage after the introduction of the transatlantic telegraph and the growth of trade. Efficiency is...