The political economy of long-run economic development; evolution of institutions; the theory and empirics of technological change; economic growth; theoretical and empirical study of wage and income inequality
Eighteenth & nineteenth century economic history: industrialization; wellbeing; labour markets; women's work and family lives; child labour; anthropometrics
The economics of urbanisation, including the evolutions of city systems and the built environment within cities, as related to institutional structures, with a current focus on China and sub-Saharan Africa
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