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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	25
Editorial Board	17
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Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
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The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	12
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	10
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony	9
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	9
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	9
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	8
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	7
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	7
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality	7
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	7
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	7
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	7
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934	7
Balancing economic stress: The role of rural–urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium	6
Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–1926	6
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	6
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	6

Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain	6
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	5
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence	5
Editorial Board	5
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	5
Editorial Board	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Digitization and data frames for card index records	4
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Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	3
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden	3
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492	3
Editorial Board	3
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France	3
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	3
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	3
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory	3
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910	3
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	3
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	3
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	3