Recently added articles from Historical Methods:
Managing munificence: the reform of naval finance in classical Athens.(Evidence Matters)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. The navy of Athens during the democratic period (ca. 480-322 BCE) was largely financed and managed by wealthy citizens who undertook a public service, or liturgy, to maintain a warship for a year. With reference to a model of decisions made by the citizens eligible to undertake ...
Are Engel curve estimates of CPI bias biased?(Perfecting Data)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. Recent literature has advanced the use of Engel curves to estimate overall consumer price index (CPI) bias. The author shows that this methodology is sensitive to the modeling of household demography. Existing estimates of CPI bias do not account for the changing effect of ...
Estimating income inequality from tax data with a priori assumed income distributions in Hungary, 1928-41.(Perfecting Data)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. The author estimates the Gini coefficients of income inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941, on the basis of official income tax statistics. Because only one point on the Lorenz curve is known, he bases his estimation on the assumption that the income has either log-normal ...
Concepts of causation in historiography.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. Historians can use the concept of causation in a variety of ways, each of which is associated with different historiographical claims and different kinds of argumentation. The author shows that, contrary to the usual view, historical narratives are causal (in a specific way), and ...
Health, wealth, and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health.(Evidence Matters)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract. The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate and may depend on how the relationship is defined. The author uses stature as a measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that although there was an inverse relationship ...