OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	27
Editorial Board	16
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	13
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	11
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Editorial Board	10
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	10
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
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
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	8
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	8
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	8
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	6
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Editorial Board	6

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	4
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	4
War bonds and household saving in WWII	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	3
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	3
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	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
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920	2
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	2
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	2
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression	2
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	2
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	2
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	2
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy	2

The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	2
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population	2
Editorial Board	2
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	2
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	2
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	2
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
The paradox of slave collateral	1
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	1
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	1
Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis	1
The long campaign: Britain’s fight to end the slave trade	1
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960	1
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?	1
The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group	1
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	1
Preface	1
Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice	1
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	1
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	1
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	1
Editorial Board	1
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis	1
Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya	1
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence	1
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	1
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 1736	1
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	1
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	1
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	1
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	1
Editorial Board	1
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings	1
Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan	1
Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland	1