Jane Humphries is a Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development and the industrial revolution. She is the current president of the Economic History Society.

Selected Publications

Humphries, Jane (1990) 'Enclosures, Common Rights and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century Britain', Journal of Economic History. Vol L, No. 1, pp. 17-42

Humphries, Jane (1994)'An Input-Output Table for 1841', Economic History Review. Vol XLVII, No.3, pp. 545-566

Humphries, Jane (2001) 'Destined for Deprivation: Human Capital Formation and Intergenerational Poverty in Nineteenth-Century England.', Explorations in Economic History. Vol 38 (3), pp. 339-365

Humphries, Jane (2003) 'Child Labor: Lessons from the Historical Experience of Today's Industrial Economies ', The World Bank Economic Review. Vol 17(2), pp. 175-196