Original Datasets

Data on 19th century town council accounts in England and Wales is available as UK Data Archive Study 856646. It can be downloaded at:

Municipal Borough and Urban Sanitary Authority Financial Accounts, 1872-1910

Replication Packages

Econographics

2023, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
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Gradual Franchise Extensions and Government Spending in Nineteenth-Century England

2024, Journal of Politics
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Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

2022, Journal of Economic History
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Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample

2025, Review of Economic Studies
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Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law

2026, Journal of the European Economic Association
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