Current Research

Geoffrey Barnes and Timothy W. Guinnane (November 2010)
"Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter’s Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940."

Timothy W. Guinnane (October 2010)
"The Historical Fertility Transition:  A Guide for Economists."

Naomi R. Lamoreaux (2010)
"The Mystery of Property Rights."

Ron Harris and Naomi R. Lamoreaux (June 2010)
"Contractual Flexibility within the Common Law: Organizing Private Companies in Britain and the United States."

Timothy W. Guinnane y Susana Martínez Rodríguez (June 2010)
"¿Fue Alguna Vez La Cooperativa Una Sociedad Por Acciones?  Leyes de negocios y de cooperativas en España (1869-1931)."
English version: "Did the Cooperative Start Life as a Joint-Stock Company?  Business Law and Cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1931,"

James Fenske (November 2009)
"Does Land Abundance Explain African Institutions?"

Bruce G. Carruthers and Naomi R. Lamoreaux (2009)
"Regulatory Races:  The Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards."

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (October 2009)
"The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century," NBER Working Paper 15440.

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb (September 2009)
"Moral hazard in a mutual health-insurance system: German Knappschaften. 1867-1914," forthcoming in The Journal of Economic History.

Ruth H. Bloch and Naomi R. Lamoreaux (May 2008)
"The Private Rights of Organizations:  The Tangled Roots of the Family, the Corporation, and the Right to Privacy."