Explorations in Economic History

Papers
(The median citation count of Explorations in Economic History is 0. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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The Black–white lifetime earnings gap16
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow11
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Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation10
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard9
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Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?8
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-19008
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–19327
Digitization and data frames for card index records7
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Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan6
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide6
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment5
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes4
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain4
Social democracy and the decline of strikes4
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression4
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–18914
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization4
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad3
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South3
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The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia3
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-19133
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines3
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence3
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill3
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–18843
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data3
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names3
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–19252
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression2
Wealth and history: A reappraisal2
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–19202
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money2
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration2
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–18402
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland2
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony2
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution2
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-19002
War bonds and household saving in WWII2
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th−20th centuries)1
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)1
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?1
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century1
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)1
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction1
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, Spain1
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–19131
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France1
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide1
Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project1
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers1
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-19501
Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective1
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War1
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]1
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America1
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–19301
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII1
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects1
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture1
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany1
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population1
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?1
Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 18820
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Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads0
Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families0
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration0
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Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis0
Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 15710
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth0
Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–19260
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression0
Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war0
Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain0
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The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–19670
De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing0
Natural disasters, missing pupils: Evidence from colonial Jamaica’s school system0
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–19340
Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–19110
Ascending from the bottom rung: The labor market assimilation of rural-urban migrants in Sweden, 1880–19100
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Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 19330
Quantifying racial discrimination in the 1944 G.I. bill0
Politics and eminent domain: Evidence from the 1879 California constitution0
The long campaign: Britain’s fight to end the slave trade0
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy0
Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence0
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark0
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 17360
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia0
Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign0
The economics of Greco-Roman slavery0
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings0
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?0
Incredible commitment: Influence accumulation, consensus-making, and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth0
Agglomeration and creativity in early modern Britain0
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project0
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Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?0
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–990
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history0
Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–20180
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Early-life lead exposure and male longevity: Evidence from historical municipal water systems0
Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan0
Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data0
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Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika0
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion0
Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era0
Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source0
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition0
War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe0
Union wage effects in Sweden: Evidence from the interwar period0
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java0
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)0
Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–19360
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality0
The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group0
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–19140
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory0
Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland0
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia0
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on wealth and income inequality around the world0
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records0
Socioeconomic differences in population growth in 19th century Liaoning, China: a decomposition0
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy0
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men0
Balancing economic stress: The role of rural–urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium0
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis0
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers0
Fueling the party machine: Evidence from Greece during Metapolitefsi0
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 14920
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?0
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion0
The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany0
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence0
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity0
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession0
Do local conditions determine the direction of science? Evidence from U.S. land grant colleges0
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world0
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Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain0
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Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries0
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain0
Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–19200
Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia0
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile0
Debt policy in Spanish America during the seventeenth century0
Exploring 200 years of U.S. commodity market integration: A structural time series model approach0
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration0
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 20160
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The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–19130
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg0
Inland Bills of Exchange: Private Money Production without Banks+0
The paradox of slave collateral0
The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–20090
Confucianism and science0
Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya0
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression0
Fertility and mortality responses to short-term economic stress: Evidence from two Hungarian sample populations, 1819-19140
The economic impact of social distancing: Evidence from state-collected data during the 1918 influenza pandemic0
The Aftermath of the February Flood of 1825: Social and Demographic Change in the Krummhörn Region, East Frisia0
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries0
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-19130
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France0
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–19600
Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII0
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony0
Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain0
European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–20000
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition0
Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice0
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