Women's liberation, household revolution

• Moshe Hazan David Weiss
• Tim Phillips

Until the second half of the 19th century, coverture laws granted married men almost unlimited power over the household. Moshe Hazan and David Weiss tell Tim Phillips about how abolition changed the number of children in a family, and how well those children were educated?

IMHOS - 41 - The Rise and Fall of Global Currencies Over Two Centuries

IMHOS - 40 - The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

IMHOS - 39 - Taxation in Africa from Colonial Times to Present. Evidence from Former French Colonies 1900-2018

IMHOS - 38 - The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action. Evidence from Imperial China

A French revolution in state-building

• Cedric Chambru Emeric Henry Benjamin Marx
• Tim Phillips

One of the most remarkable achievements of the French Revolution for ordinary people was the reorganisation of local government. Cédric Chambru, Emeric Henry and Benjamin Marx tell Tim Phillips how local state capitals emerged as a result, and what this tells us about how state capacity develops.