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Papers

(The median citation count of Explorations in Economic History is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	24
Editorial Board	16
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	14
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	11
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	11
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	10
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	9
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	9
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	7
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	7
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	6
Editorial Board	6
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6

Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	5
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	5
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	4
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	4
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	4
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	3
Editorial Board	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3
Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain	3
From Status to Contract? A Macrohistory from Early-Modern English Caselaw and Print Culture	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
Kinship and Opportunity: Swedish Chain Migration to the United States, 1880–1920	2
Editorial Board	2
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	2
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	2
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	2
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	2
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	2
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	2
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	2
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	1
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	1
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	1
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	1
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	1
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	1
Preface	1
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	1
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	1
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the Great Depression	1
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	1

Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	1
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934	1
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	1
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	1
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	1
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	1
Editorial Board	1
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	1
Editorial Board	1