Delabastita, V., & Rubens, M. (2025). Colluding against workers. Journal of Political Economy, 133(6), 1796-1839.
[URL][Accepted Version] [Online Appendix][SSRN] 

Claridge, J., Delabastita, V., & Gibbs, S. (2024). (In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money. Explorations in Economic History, 94, 101626.
[URL] [Accepted Version] [LSE Blog]

Delabastita, V., & Maes, S. (2023). The feudal origins of manorial prosperity: Social interactions in 11th-century England. The Journal of Economic History, 83(2), 464-500.
[URL] [Accepted Version] [EHES Working Paper No. 190]

Buyst, E., & Delabastita, V. (2023). Regional inequalities in nineteenth-century female wages: Evidence from Belgium . The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 54(1), 83-110.
[URL] [Accepted Version]

Delabastita, V., & Buyst, E. (2021). Intergenerational mobility of sons and daughters: Evidence from 19th-century West Flanders. European Review of Economic History, 25(2), 300-327.
[URL] [Blog] [Online Appendix]

Technological progress in slack labor markets
Joint with Maarten Goos
Available on SSRN

The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
Joint with Jordan Claridge & Spike Gibbs
Available as LSE Economic History Working Paper No. 375
Conditionally accepted at Economic History Review

Women’s wages and job quality in the 1920s United States
Joint with Meredith Paker & Ben Schneider
Available as Oxford Economic and Social History Working Paper No. 223

The Black Death as a structural market transformation?
Joint with Jordan Claridge, Spike Gibbs & Greg Salter

Transportation networks, input access and technology adoption: Evidence from the spread of steam power
Joint with Geert Goeyvaerts, Sander Ramboer, Jakob Vanschoonbeek & Andreas Vueghs

Fueling the Industrial Revolution: Coal and child labor
Joint with Andreas Vueghs

Careers vs. Jobs: Career-long earnings and the mismeasurement of historical living standards
Joint with Robin Philips, Meredith Paker, Auke Rijpma & Ben Schneider

Delabastita, V. (2024). Summaries of doctoral dissertations. The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 593–627.
[URL]
(Back from when my PhD thesis was nominated for the 2023 Alexander Gerschenkron Prize.)

Philips, R., & Delabastita, V. (2020). Une perspective comparative sur le travail en Belgique des années 1830 aux années 1930.
In J-M. Olivier (Ed.), Le travail en Europe Occidentale des années 1830 aux années 1930: Mains d'Œuvres artisanales et industrielles, pratiques et questions sociales. Armand Colin.
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