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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	20
Editorial Board	17
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	15
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	13
Editorial Board	13
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	12
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain	11
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	11
Digitization and data frames for card index records	11
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	10
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	10
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	9
Editorial Board	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	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 world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	7
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	7
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
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	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	5
War bonds and household saving in WWII	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	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
Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project	5
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	5
The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?	5
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	5
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	4
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	4
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	4
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)	4
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	4
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	4
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	4
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	4
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	4
Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination	4
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	3
Editorial Board	3
Soaring in rationality: Bonds as a partial hedge against hyperinflation	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population	3
Living standards in Angola, 1760–1975	3
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	3
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	3
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	3
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	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
Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective	3
Editorial Board	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
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950	3
Missing markets. Microstructure and liquidity on the London Stock Exchange	3
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	3
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	3
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	3
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	3
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	2

The paradox of slave collateral	2
Risk-coping behaviors in metropolis: Evidence from working-class households in Prewar Tokyo	2
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	2
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	2
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	2
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	2
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression	2
Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920	2
A better ride: New evidence on travel and the quality of roads in England and Wales, 1660-1820	2
Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice	2
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	2
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy	2
Quarterly GDP for Ireland since 1950	2
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	2
The geography of opportunity after the Civil War: Black and white Americans’ intra- and intergenerational mobility into property ownership	2
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	2
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	2
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII	2
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	2
Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	2