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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution25
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Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-190015
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The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration12
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation11
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java10
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset9
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony9
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain9
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow8
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard7
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–19347
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression7
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression7
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality7
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap7
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile7
Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–19266
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth6
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment6
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain6
Balancing economic stress: The role of rural–urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium6
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion5
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Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–18405
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–19325
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence5
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Digitization and data frames for card index records4
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–19103
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries3
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration3
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-19003
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan3
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden3
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 14923
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The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France3
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition3
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide3
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory3
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set2
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–19252
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland2
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings2
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Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917)2
Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia2
Muslim conquest and institutional formation2
The economic impact of social distancing: Evidence from state-collected data during the 1918 influenza pandemic2
Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika2
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 20162
Social democracy and the decline of strikes2
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration2
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)2
Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era1
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization1
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis1
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–19601
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 17361
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–18911
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–19201
Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war1
Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya1
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition1
Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland1
Debt policy in Spanish America during the seventeenth century1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–19131
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia1
Wealth and history: A reappraisal1
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression1
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony1
The Aftermath of the February Flood of 1825: Social and Demographic Change in the Krummhörn Region, East Frisia1
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide0
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Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers0
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War0
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis0
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion0
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history0
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Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families0
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–18100
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–990
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession0
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Quantifying racial discrimination in the 1944 G.I. bill0
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark0
De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing0
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity0
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America0
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South0
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–18840
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–19670
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries0
Inland Bills of Exchange: Private Money Production without Banks+0
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Exploring 200 years of U.S. commodity market integration: A structural time series model approach0
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?0
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?0
Incredible commitment: Influence accumulation, consensus-making, and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth0
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, Spain0
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)0
Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence0
Politics and eminent domain: Evidence from the 1879 California constitution0
Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data0
Union wage effects in Sweden: Evidence from the interwar period0
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-19130
Do local conditions determine the direction of science? Evidence from U.S. land grant colleges0
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names0
Fueling the party machine: Evidence from Greece during Metapolitefsi0
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–19130
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects0
Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–19110
Agglomeration and creativity in early modern Britain0
The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach0
Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain0
Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–19360
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia0
World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records0
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 19330
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The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–20090
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence0
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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation0
European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–20000
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men0
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money0
Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–20180
The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany0
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad0
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]0
Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 15710
Confucianism and science0
Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source0
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg0
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world0
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data0
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–19300
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–19140
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire0
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France0
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?0
Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 18820
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project0
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century0
Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain0
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill0
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War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe0
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads0
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