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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	24
Editorial Board	17
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	15
Editorial Board	14
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	12
Editorial Board	11
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	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
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	8
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	8
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	8
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	7
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Editorial Board	6
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	6
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	6
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
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	5
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
War bonds and household saving in WWII	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	4
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	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
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	3
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime wage controls?	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	3
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	3
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population	2
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	2
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	2
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	2
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	2
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	2
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	2
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	2
Editorial Board	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920	2
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	2
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	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
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	2
Editorial Board	2
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	1
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	1
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	1

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	1
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	1
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression	1
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	1
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	1
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	1
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	1
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	1
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	1
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	1
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	1
The paradox of slave collateral	1
Editorial Board	1
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	1
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy	1
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	1
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	1
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	1