OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Explorations in Economic History is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	26
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	14
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	13
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	12
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
Editorial Board	10
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	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
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	8
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	8
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	6
Editorial Board	6
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

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	5
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	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
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	4
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	4
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	4
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	4
War bonds and household saving in WWII	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	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
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3