Meredith M. Paker - Research

Meredith M. Paker

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression" with Jason Lennard. Forthcoming at the Journal of Economic History, 2025.
[VoxEU Blog Post] [CEPR Discussion Paper] [WP Version 2023]

"Nominal Wage Patterns, Monopsony, and Labour Market Power in Early Modern England" with Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis. The Economic History Review, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 179-206, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13346
[Journal] [Replication] [WP Version 2023]

"Industrial, Regional, and Gender Divides in British Unemployment Between the Wars." European Review of Economic History, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 475-516, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heae007
[Journal] [Replication] [WP Version 2024]

"The Jobless Recovery After the 1980-1981 British Recession." Explorations in Economic History, vol. 90, 101545, pp. 1-21, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101545
[Journal] [Replication] [WP Version 2023]

"Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers Before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748" with Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis. The Journal of Economic History, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 1101-1137, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000347
[Journal] [Replication] [WP Version 2022]

Other Publications

"Review of periodical literature for 2023: (vi) post-1945." The Economic History Review, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 397-297, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13405

"Review of periodical literature for 2022: (vi) post-1945." The Economic History Review, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 376-387, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13312

"A Problem of Industries and Regions: Unemployment and Structural Change in Britain During the Interwar Years and 1980s." Dissertation Summary. The Journal of Economic History 84, no. 2 (2022): 581-586. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050722000195

"Day Work, Task Work and Watch Work: Labourers at St Pauls Cathedral 1672-1748" with Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis. Conference Proceedings. Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History, August 2021: 3-11.
[Judy's Keynote Lecture]

Working Papers & Works In Progress

"Predictive Modeling the Past" with Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis (submitted)
[WP June 2025] [Code]

"Labor Reallocation and the Uneven Burden of Unemployment in Interwar Britain" (submitted)
[WP November 2025]

- "Women’s Wages and Job Quality in the 1920s" with Vincent Delabastita and Benjamin Schneider (submitted)
  [WP October 2025]

"Economic Relief in Recession: Poverty and Unemployment Benefits During the Great Depression in Britain" with Ivan Luzardo-Luna (submitted)
[WP September 2024]

"The Unequal Effects of the Early 1980s UK Recession" (new draft soon)
[WP March 2023]

"Structural Change, Labor Reallocation, and Mismatch During the Great Depression"

"Careers vs. Jobs: Career-Long Earnings and the Mismeasurement of Historical Living Standards” (with Vincent Delabastita, Robin Philips, Auke Rijpma, and Benjamin Schneider)

Other Work

"A Problem of Industries and Regions: Unemployment and Structural Change in Britain During the Interwar Years and 1980s." DPhil Dissertation. April 2021.

"Normal Science and Anomaly: Responding to Unemployment in Economics in the 1920s." MPhil Dissertation. June 2018.

"On the Applicability of Theories of Scientific Change to Economics." June 2017.

"Biography of Paul Erdős and discussion of his proof of Bertrand's Postulate." April 2016.
[arXiv]

"N.N. Evreinov and Theatrical Imagery in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading," with Charles Byrd, JURO (2016) 18-19.

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