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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	27
Editorial Board	16
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	13
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	11
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Editorial Board	10
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	10
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	9
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	9
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	8
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	8
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	8
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
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
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Editorial Board	6

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	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
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
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	4
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	4
War bonds and household saving in WWII	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	3
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	3
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	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
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3