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Tomas Cvrcek

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(50%) Centre for Comparative Economics
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom
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(50%) Národohospodářská Fakulta
Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze

Praha, Czech Republic
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Working papers

  1. Tomáš Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2017. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of Austrian school reform, 1865 - 1875," UCL SSEES Economics and Business working paper series 2017-3, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
  2. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2013. "School, what is it good for? Useful Human Capital and the History of Public Education in Central Europe," NBER Working Papers 19690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Tomas Cvrcek, 2010. "America's settling down: How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930," NBER Working Papers 16161, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Tomas Cvrcek, 2021. "The Policy and the Reality of Public Schooling in 19 th Century Imperial Austria," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 33-61.
  2. Tomáš Cvrček, 2021. "David Mitch and Gabriele Cappelli, eds., Globalization and the rise of mass education (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xx+338. 40 figs. 22 tabs. ISBN 9783030254179 e‐Book. £79.50; ISBN 97830302541," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(2), pages 576-577, May.
  3. Cvrcek, Tomas & Zajicek, Miroslav, 2019. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of the Austrian school reform, 1865 – 1880," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 1-1.
  4. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
  5. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2013. "Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in the Habsburg Empire, 1827–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 73(1), pages 1-37, March.
  6. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2012. "America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(3), pages 335-351.
  7. Tomas Cvrcek, 2009. "When Harry left Sally: A New Estimate of Marital Disruption in the U.S., 1860 - 1948," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 21(24), pages 719-758.
  8. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2009. "Inequality and living standards under early communism: Anthropometric evidence from Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 436-449, October.
  9. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2008. "Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States. By Susan Porter Benson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 233. $45," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(1), pages 315-316, March.
  10. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2007. "The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History and Demography. By Richard A. Easterlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx, 284. $75, cloth; $29.99, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 67(1), pages 248-250, March.
  11. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2006. "Seasonal anthropometric cycles in a command economy: The case of Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 4(3), pages 317-341, December.
  12. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2005. "The Forces of Economic Growth: A Time Series Perspective. By Alfred Greiner, Willi Semmler and Gang Gong. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, Pp. xiv, 208. $50.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 65(3), pages 885-887, September.
  13. Tomáš Cvrček, 2001. "The behavioral maladjustment of the communist managerial elites (the case of the czech republic)," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2001(1).

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Tomáš Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2017. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of Austrian school reform, 1865 - 1875," UCL SSEES Economics and Business working paper series 2017-3, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).

    Cited by:

    1. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
    2. Monica Bozzano & Gabriele Cappelli, 2019. "The legacy of history or the outcome of reforms? Primary education and literacy in Liberal Italy (1871-1911)," Department of Economics University of Siena 801, Department of Economics, University of Siena.

  2. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2013. "School, what is it good for? Useful Human Capital and the History of Public Education in Central Europe," NBER Working Papers 19690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Pawel Bukowski, 2015. "What Determines The Long-Run Persistence of the Empires? The Effect of the Partition of Poland on Education," CEU Working Papers 2015_3, Department of Economics, Central European University.
    2. Cinnirella, Francesco & Schueler, Ruth, 2018. "Nation building: The role of central spending in education," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 18-39.
    3. Francisco J Beltrán Tapia & Alfonso Díez-Minguela & Alicia Gómez-Tello & Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A Tirado-Fabregats, 2024. "Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial societies: evidence from Valencia," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 28(2), pages 135-162.
    4. Ruth Maria Schüler, 2018. "Education Economics from a Historical Perspective," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 78, May.
    5. Lant Pritchett & Martina Viarengo, 2013. "The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers?," CID Working Papers 272, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    6. Andersson, Jens & Berger, Thor, 2016. "Elites and the Expansion of Education in 19th-century Sweden," Lund Papers in Economic History 149, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
    7. Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Alfonso Díez-Minguela & Alicia Gómez-Tello & Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, 2021. "Structural change and the income of nations," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2021/414, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
    8. Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Alfonso Díez-Minguela & Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, 2020. "Lordships, state capacity and beyond: literacy rates in mid-nineteenth-century Valencia," Working Papers 0196, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    9. Cinnirella, Francesco & Schüler, Ruth M., 2016. "The Cost of Decentralization: Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education," CEPR Discussion Papers 11274, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    10. Bukowski, Paweł, 2018. "How history matters for student performance: lessons from the Partitions of Poland," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 90643, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. Bukowski, Paweł, 2019. "How history matters for student performance. lessons from the Partitions of Poland," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 136-175.

  3. Tomas Cvrcek, 2010. "America's settling down: How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930," NBER Working Papers 16161, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Claudia Olivetti & M. Daniele Paserman & Laura Salisbury & E. Anna Weber, 2020. "Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940," NBER Working Papers 28033, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Claudia Olivetti & M. Daniele Paserman, 2013. "In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930," NBER Working Papers 18822, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan, 2016. "Immigration in American Economic History," NBER Working Papers 21882, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Tie-Ying Liu & Hsu-Ling Chang & Chi-Wei Su, 2017. "Why do People Get Married? An Inframarginal Perspective," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 130(3), pages 1281-1295, February.

Articles

  1. Cvrcek, Tomas & Zajicek, Miroslav, 2019. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of the Austrian school reform, 1865 – 1880," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 1-1.

    Cited by:

    1. Krieger, Tommy, 2020. "Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods," ZEW Discussion Papers 20-064, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    2. Palma, Nuno & Reis, Jaime Brown, 2018. "Can autocracy promote literacy? evidence from a cultural alignment success story," CEPR Discussion Papers 12811, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Marco Martinez, 2024. "The origins of Italian human capital divides: new evidence from marriage signatures, ca. 1815," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 18(2), pages 567-617, May.
    4. Monica Bozzano & Gabriele Cappelli, 2019. "The legacy of history or the outcome of reforms? Primary education and literacy in Liberal Italy (1871-1911)," Department of Economics University of Siena 801, Department of Economics, University of Siena.

  2. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Paola Azar, 2022. "Politics as a determinant of primary school provision: the case of Uruguay," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 16(2), pages 333-367, May.
    2. Ogilvie, S. & Edwards, J. & Küpker, M., 2016. "Economically Relevant Human Capital or Multi-Purpose Consumption Good? Book Ownership in Pre-Modern Württemberg," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1655, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    3. Paola Azar & Sergio Espuelas, 2021. "Democracy and primary education spending in Spain, 1902-22," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2021/409, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
    4. Pau Insa-Sánchez & Alfonso Díez-Minguela, 2023. "Starting high school? On the origins of secondary education in Spain, 1857–1901," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 17(2), pages 233-259, May.

  3. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2013. "Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in the Habsburg Empire, 1827–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 73(1), pages 1-37, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Pamuk, Sevket & Karaman, Kivanc & Yıldırım-Karaman, Seçil, 2018. "Money and Monetary Stability in Europe, 1300-1914," CEPR Discussion Papers 12583, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2019. "Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015," CEP Discussion Papers dp1628, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2019. "Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892- 2015," World Inequality Lab Working Papers hal-02876995, HAL.
    4. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
    5. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2017. "Top Incomes during Wars, Communism and Capitalism: Poland 1892-2015," Working Papers halshs-02797835, HAL.
    6. Erfurth, Philipp Emanuel, 2022. "Is the European Union More Unequal Than the Habsburg Empire? Examining Regional Inequalities in Habsburg Regions From 1870 to 2018," SocArXiv 86p27, Center for Open Science.
    7. Müller Uwe, 2018. "East Central Europe in the First Globalization (1850-1914)," Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, Sciendo, vol. 36(1), pages 71-90, December.
    8. Erfurth, Philipp Emanuel, 2022. "Is the European Union More Unequal Than the Habsburg Empire? Examining Regional Inequalities in Habsburg Regions From 1870 to 2018," SocArXiv 86p27_v1, Center for Open Science.
    9. Carlo Ciccarelli & Anna Missiaia, 2014. "Business Fluctuations in Imperial Austria's Regions, 1867-1913: New Evidence," CEIS Research Paper 312, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 11 Apr 2014.
    10. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2017. "Top Incomes during Wars, Communism and Capitalism: Poland 1892-2015," World Inequality Lab Working Papers halshs-02797835, HAL.
    11. Filip Novokmet, 2018. "The long-run evolution of inequality in the Czech Lands, 1898-2015," PSE Working Papers hal-02878212, HAL.
    12. Kouli, Yaman & König, Jörg, 2021. "Measuring European economic integration 1880 - 1913: A new approach," DICE Discussion Papers 374, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
    13. Paul Caruana-Galizia, 2015. "Strategic colonies and economic development: real wages in Cyprus, Gibraltar, and Malta, 1836–1913," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(4), pages 1250-1276, November.
    14. Bukowski, Pawel & Novokmet, Filip, 2019. "Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102814, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    15. Uysal, Sezgin & Celebi, Ismail, 2024. "Emigration Dynamics and Transatlantic Voyage from Austria-Hungary to the U.S. between 1840 to 1910," SocArXiv 7vfxn, Center for Open Science.
    16. Gerald Hubmann & Clemens Jobst & Michaela Maier, 2020. "A new long-run consumer price index for Austria (1800–2018)," Monetary Policy & the Economy, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue Q3/20, pages 61-88.
    17. Nielsen, Hana, 2021. "Coal and Sugar: The Black and White Gold of Czech Industrialization (1841-1863)," Lund Papers in Economic History 229, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
    18. Uysal, Sezgin & Celebi, Ismail, 2024. "Emigration Dynamics and Transatlantic Voyage from Austria-Hungary to the U.S. between 1840 to 1910," SocArXiv 7vfxn_v1, Center for Open Science.
    19. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2017. "Top Incomes during Wars, Communism and Capitalism: Poland 1892-2015," PSE Working Papers halshs-02797835, HAL.
    20. Bukowski, Pawel & Novokmet, Filip, 2019. "Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892-2015," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102834, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    21. Filip Novokmet, 2018. "The long-run evolution of inequality in the Czech Lands, 1898-2015," World Inequality Lab Working Papers hal-02878212, HAL.
    22. Pawel Bukowski & Filip Novokmet, 2019. "Between Communism and Capitalism: Long-Term Inequality in Poland, 1892- 2015," Working Papers hal-02876995, HAL.
    23. Filip Novokmet, 2018. "The long-run evolution of inequality in the Czech Lands, 1898-2015," Working Papers hal-02878212, HAL.
    24. Carlo Ciccarelli & Anna Missiaia, 2018. "The fall and rise of business cycle co-movements in Imperial Austria’s regions," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 60(1), pages 171-193, January.

  4. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2012. "America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(3), pages 335-351.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Tomas Cvrcek, 2009. "When Harry left Sally: A New Estimate of Marital Disruption in the U.S., 1860 - 1948," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 21(24), pages 719-758.

    Cited by:

    1. Peter Koudijs & Laura Salisbury, 2016. "Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850," NBER Working Papers 21952, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Matthew J. Hill, 2014. "Love in the time of the depression: The effect of economic conditions on marriage in the Great Depression," Economics Working Papers 1454, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

  6. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2009. "Inequality and living standards under early communism: Anthropometric evidence from Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 436-449, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Cámara, Antonio D. & Puche, Javier & Martínez-Carrión, José Miguel, 2021. "Assessing the effects of autarchic policies on the biological well-being: Analysis of deviations in cohort male height in the Valencian Community (Spain) during Francoist regime," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 273(C).
    2. Ayuda, María-Isabel & Puche-Gil, Javier, 2014. "Determinants of height and biological inequality in Mediterranean Spain, 1859–1967," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 15(C), pages 101-119.
    3. Linares-Luján, Antonio M. & Parejo-Moruno, Francisco M., 2022. "Short men in poor lands: The agrarian workers from southwestern Spain in anthropometric perspective," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 47(C).

  7. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2006. "Seasonal anthropometric cycles in a command economy: The case of Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 4(3), pages 317-341, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Cvrcek, Tomas, 2009. "Inequality and living standards under early communism: Anthropometric evidence from Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 46(4), pages 436-449, October.
    2. Joan Costa-i-Font & Lucia Kossarova, 2014. "Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up," CESifo Working Paper Series 5081, CESifo.
    3. Joan Costa-i-Font & Lucia Kossarova, 2015. "Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia’s Break Up," LEQS – LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion Paper Series 95, European Institute, LSE.
    4. Costa-Font, Joan & Kossarova, Lucia, 2014. "Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 60719, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Candela-Martínez, Begoña & Ramallo-Ros, Salvador & Cañabate, José & Martínez-Carrión, José-Miguel, 2022. "Month of birth and height. A case study in rural Spain," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 47(C).

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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (2) 2010-07-10 2017-06-25
  2. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2010-07-10
  3. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (1) 2010-07-10
  4. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (1) 2017-06-25

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