Dr Chris Minns

• Lecturer in Economic History
• Room C319
• Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7812
• Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
• c.minns@lse.ac.uk
• http://personal.lse.ac.uk/minns/

Research Interests

• North American economic history; labour market history, particularly migration and education; price history.

Current Teaching

• EH237: Theories and Evidence in Economic History
• EH304: The Economic History of North America: From Colonial Times to the Cold War
• EH422: Topics in Quantitative Economic History
• EH408: International Migration, 1500-2000: From Slavery to Migration
• EH590: Thesis Workshop in Economic History 

Publications

• "The Times they are not changin': days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000" (with Michael Huberman). Explorations in Economic History 44 (2007), 538-567.
• "The costs of doing hard time: a penitentiary based regional price index for Canada, 1883-1923." (with Mary MacKinnon).  Canadian journal of economics 40 (2007), 528-560.
• "Immigration policy and the skills of Irish immigrants: evidence and implications."  Journal of the statistical and social inquiry society of Ireland 34 (158th session) (2005), 82-114.
• "Conspicuous by their absence: French Canadians and the settlement of the Canadian West," (with Alan Green and Mary MacKinnon).  Journal of economic history 65 (2005), 822-849.
• "The spirit of capitalism?  Ethnicity, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada," (with Marian Rizov).  Explorations in economic history 42 (2005), 259-281.
• "Dominion or Republic? British immigrants to North America, 1870-1910," (with Alan Green and Mary MacKinnon). Economic history review 55 (2002), 666-696.
• "Income, cohort effects, and occupational mobility: a new look at immigration to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century."  Explorations in economic history 37 (2000), 326-350.

Current Research Projects

• Apprenticeship in pre-modern England
• Wages, work time, and labour market regulation in international perspective
• The emergence of national markets in Canada, 1870-1940
• Schooling and school finance in Canada, 1871-1971

Refereeing

• Economic and Social Review
• Economic History Review
• European Review of Economic History
• Explorations in Economic History
• International Migration Journal
• International Migration Review
• Journal of Population Economics
• Review of Economics and Statistics
• Review of International Economics and Business
• Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Social Science History
• Southern Economic Journal

Prizes

• Explorations Prize, 2008 (with Michael Huberman)
• Economic History Society, New Researcher Prize, 1999

Curriculum Vitae

• CV (pdf)