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Handbook of Cliometrics

  • Reference work
  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Claude Diebolt

    1. BETA/CNRS, University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study, Strasbourg, France

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  2. Michael Haupert

    1. University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, La Crosse, USA

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  • The authoritative reference work in the field of historical economics and econometric history
  • Outlines the contributions of cliometrics to a variety of topics
  • Engages economists, historians and social scientists to participate in a world-wide forum of discussion
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (65 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. History of Cliometrics

      • Michael Haupert
      Pages 3-32

    3. The Contributions of Robert Fogel to Cliometrics

      • David Mitch
      Pages 33-59

    4. Douglass North and Cliometrics

      • Sumner La Croix
      Pages 61-87

    5. Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

      • Peter Temin
      Pages 89-107

    6. Economic History as Humanomics

      • Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
      Pages 109-122

    7. Cliometrics and the Study of Canadian Economic History

      • Ian Keay, Frank D. Lewis
      Pages 123-144

  3. Human Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Human Capital

      • Claudia Goldin
      Pages 147-177

    3. Labor Markets

      • Robert A. Margo
      Pages 179-203

    4. The Human Capital Transition and the Role of Policy

      • Ralph Hippe, Roger Fouquet
      Pages 205-251

    5. Education and Socioeconomic Development During the Industrialization

      • Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
      Pages 253-273

    6. Gender in Economic History

      • Joyce Burnette
      Pages 275-300

    7. International Migration in the Atlantic Economy 1850–1940

      • Timothy J. Hatton, Zachary Ward
      Pages 301-329

    8. Cliometrics and the Concept of Human Capital

      • Charlotte Le Chapelain
      Pages 331-355

    9. Age-Heaping-Based Human Capital Estimates

      • Franziska Tollnek, Joerg Baten
      Pages 357-380

    10. Church Book Registry: A Cliometric View

      • Jacob Weisdorf
      Pages 381-400

  4. Growth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 401-401
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    2. Cliometrics of Growth

      • Claude Diebolt, Faustine Perrin
      Pages 403-421
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About this book

The Handbook of Cliometrics is a milestone in the field of historical economics and econometric history through its emphasis on the concrete contribution of cliometrics to our knowledge in economics and history. The articles in the handbook authored by the leading scholars in the fields, stress the usefulness of cliometrics for economists, historians and social scientists in general. The Handbook offers a comprehensive coverage of topics with each article providing an overview of the contributions of cliometrics to a particular topic. The Handbook has set a new standard of quality in the field by offering a world-wide forum of discussion in cliometrics. The second edition of the Handbook offers a substantially enlarged collection of articles and thus stresses its unique position as authoritative reference work in this field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • BETA/CNRS, University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study, Strasbourg, France

    Claude Diebolt

  • University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, La Crosse, USA

    Michael Haupert

About the editors

Claude Diebolt is CNRS research professor of economics at the University of Strasbourg. He is the founder and the editor in chief of the journal Cliometrica. He is also the coeditor of the Handbook of Cliometrics and was the organizer of the 8th World Congress of Cliometrics. Claude Diebolt is the current president of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS Section 37, Economics and Management Science) and the president of the Association Française de Science Economique. He is the founding president of the Association Française de Cliométrie and a former chair of the board of trustees of the Cliometric Society in the United States. On March 6, 2019, Claude Diebolt received the 2018–2019 Sarton Medal for his research in Cliometrics.

Michael Haupert is professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and executive director of the Economic History Association. Previously,he served in the same position for 8 years for the Cliometric Society. His research interests are the economic history of the sports and entertainment industries and the history of the economic history discipline. He has authored two books on the history of the entertainment industry in America and coauthored a book on the economics of baseball in the 1920s. His research has also appeared in Cliometrica, The Journal of Economic History, and The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, among others.

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