OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	29
Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party	26
European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War	21
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–1962	18
Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism	18
The Effect of War Risk on Managerial and Investor Behavior: Evidence from the Brussels Stock Exchange in the Pre-1914 Era	17
The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933	17
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	16
Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s	14
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results	14
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of American Farm Productivity Growth	12
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	11
The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550–1650	11
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820–1847	11
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992	10
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	9
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	9
From Complementary to Competitive: The London and U.K. Provincial Stock Markets	8
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	8
The Political and Economic Geography of Southern Secession	7
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	7
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	7
More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change, and Labor Conflict	7
How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation	7
China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement	7

Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution	7
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	6
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965	6
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	6
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	6
El Sueño Americano? The Generational Progress of Mexican Americans Prior to World War II	6
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	6
The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise	6
The Return to Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Evidence from Twins	6
Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States	6
Economic Growth and the Development of Real Wages: Swedish Construction Workers’ Wages in Comparative Perspective, 1831–1900	6
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	6
Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice	5
Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and the “Sinn Féin Election” in Ireland, 1918	5
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	5
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	5
Biological Innovation without Intellectual Property Rights: Cottonseed Markets in the Antebellum American South	5
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	5
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	5
Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India	5
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	4
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	4
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment	4
Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations	4
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910	4
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	4
Biological Living Standards of Korea during the Port-Opening Period, 1876–1910	4
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	4
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	4
Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar	4
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	4
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s	3
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	3
Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok	3
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	3
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	3
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	3
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	2
Why Join the Fed?	2
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	2
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	2
Explaining Anomalous Wage Inflation in the 1930s United States	2
G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944	2
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	2
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years	2
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	2
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression	2
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	2
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	2
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	2

Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics	2
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	1
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	1
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	1
Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder 1922–1938. By Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard H. Timberlake. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2019. Pp. xix, 201. $21.21, hardcov	1
Labor Earnings Inequality in Manufacturing during the Great Depression	1
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	1
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament	1
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932	1
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South	1
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	1
The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply, Market Access, and Structural Transformation in Pre-War Japan	1
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	1
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina	1
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	1
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany	1
Balancing the Books: Convergence and Diversity of Accounting in Massachusetts, 1875–1895	1
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	1
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	1
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru	1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	1
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	1
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	1
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	1
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	0
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Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940. By César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 307. $99.99, hardcover; $80.	0
Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change, vol. 64. By Lee J. Alston, Marcus A. Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 2	0
Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession. By Mark H. Rose. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. vii+253, $39.95, £34.00, hardcover.	0
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Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 3296. $24.95, hardcover.	0
Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy. By B. Zorina Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 478. $99.00, hardcover; $17.49, Kindle.	0
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy. By Colin P. Elliott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $97.69, hardcover; $80.00, Kindle.	0
World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. By Gregg Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx, 523. $120.00, hardcover.	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting	0
Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover.	0
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Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. By Mariana Mazzucato. London: Allen Lane, 2021, Pp. 272. $24.72, hardcover.	0
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American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D. By Eric S. Hintz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $60.00, paper; $41.99, Kindle.	0
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0
Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973–1982. By Sebastian Alvarez. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 231.	0
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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover.	0
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 978	0
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 312. $27.97, hardcover.	0
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Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past. By Simon Mee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $65.59, Kindle; $78.57, hardcover.	0
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages. By Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 536. $20.10, hardcover; $19.95, paper.	0
Editors’ Notes	0
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	0
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	0
JEH volume 80 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting	0
Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.9	0
Editors’ Report for 2022	0
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	0
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J. C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, paperback.	0
Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition	0
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover.	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700. By Ron Harris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 465. $39.95/£34.00, hardcover.	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations – ADDENDUM	0
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	0
Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony. Edited by Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. $115.00, hardc	0
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History. By Viktor Pál. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv, 263. $151.53, cloth; $116.92, eBook.	0
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order. By J.C. Sharman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 196. $27.95, cloth; $17.95, pa	0
Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. By Jim Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 231. $130.00, cloth.	0
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	0

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
The New Silk Roads. By Peter Frankopan. London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Pp. 320. $16.40, hardcover; $10.93, paper.	0
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The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	0
Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913. By Stefano Fenoaltea. Rome, Italy: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus, 2020. Pp. xvi, 329.	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	0
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. By Tyson Reeder. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $45.00, hardcover.	0
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Editors’ Report for 2021	0
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Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.	0
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Technology in the Industrial Revolution. By Barbara Hahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+225. $24.95, paperback.	0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper.	0
Hawai’i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. By Sumner La Croix. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $60, cloth.	0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	0
Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 422. $21.17, hardcover; $18.49, Kindle.	0
Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications. By Eric Alston, Lee Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 406. $78.91	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-316	0
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The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
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Editors’ Report for 2023	0
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Schooling under Control. The Origins of Public Education in Imperial Austria 1769–1869. By Tomas Cvrcek. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. xi + 301. $83.00, hardcover.	0
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.	0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	0
Sovereign Collateral	0
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 459. $18.85, hardcover.	0
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover.	0
Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50.	0
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El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350.	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
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Editors’ Report for 2020	0
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.	0
Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.	0
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover.	0
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover.	0
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Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 245. $34.95, hardcover.	0
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