Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: a long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)

Alfani, Guido; García Montero, Héctor

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Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: a long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)

dc.contributor.author	Alfani, Guido
dc.contributor.author	García Montero, Héctor
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-02T07:00:21Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-02T07:00:21Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.date.updated	2022-07-21T10:10:08Z
dc.description.abstract	This article provides an overview of wealth inequality in England from the late thirteenth to the sixteenth century, based on a novel database of distributions of taxable household wealth across 17 counties plus London. To account for high thresholds of fiscal exemption, a new method is introduced to reconstruct complete distributions from left-censored observations. First, we analyse inequality at the county level, finding an impressive stability across time in the relative position of the English counties, perturbed only by the tendency of the South and South-East to become relatively more inegalitarian. Then, we produce an aggregate distribution representative of England as a whole, and we detect an overall tendency for inequality to grow from medieval to early modern times due largely to North-South divergence in average household wealth. We discuss our results in the light of the recent literature on historical inequality.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	We are grateful for the support received from the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. In particular, the Cambridge-based project 'The occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy, provided us with the GIS layers of historical county and hundred boundaries. The research leading to this article has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 283802, EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800, as well as under European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Program/ERC grant agreement no. 725687, SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Alfani, G.; García-Montero, H.. (2022). Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: a long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries). The Economic history review. 1-35 .	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/ehr.13158
dc.identifier.issn	0013-0117
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/43656
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Economic History Society	en
dc.relation.ispartof	The Economic History Review, 2022, pp. 1-35	es_ES
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/725687	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13158	es_ES
dc.rights	© 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Black Death	en
dc.subject	Early modern period	en
dc.subject	Economic inequality	en
dc.subject	England	en
dc.subject	Middle Ages	en
dc.subject	Plague	en
dc.subject	Wealth concentration	en
dc.title	Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: a long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)	en
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