OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Explorations in Economic History is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	24
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	21
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	17
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	16
Editorial Board	16
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	13
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	12
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain	12
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	11
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	11
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Editorial Board	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	9
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	9
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	8
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	8
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	8
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6
Politics and institutional change: The Water Commission Act of 1913	6
Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform	6
Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history	6
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	6

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
Estimating grain storage with probate inventories: Kent and Cornwall, 1600-1750	5
Locked in the past: Old housing and the adoption of electric heating	5
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?	5
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	5
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)	5
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
War bonds and household saving in WWII	5
Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project	5
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	5
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	5
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	5
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	4
Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination	4
Missing markets. Microstructure and liquidity on the London Stock Exchange	4
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	4
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	4
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	4
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	4
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	4
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	4
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	4
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	4
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	4
Living standards in Angola, 1760–1975	3
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population	3
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	3
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	3
Editorial Board	3
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	3
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	3
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	3
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	3
Epidemic mortality and redistribution of housing wealth in Leiden, 1632–1668	3
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950	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
Quarterly GDP for Ireland since 1950	3
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	3
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	3
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression	3
Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective	3
Soaring in rationality: Bonds as a partial hedge against hyperinflation	3
Female labor force participation in historical census microdata	3

Editorial Board	3
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	3
Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development	3
Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920	3
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	3
Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice	2
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
Country banks and the Panic of 1825	2
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	2
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	2
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	2
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy	2
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Risk-coping behaviors in metropolis: Evidence from working-class households in Prewar Tokyo	2
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	2
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	2
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	2
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	2
Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII	2
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	2
The geography of opportunity after the Civil War: Black and white Americans’ intra- and intergenerational mobility into property ownership	2
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	2
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	2
A better ride: New evidence on travel and the quality of roads in England and Wales, 1660-1820	2