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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	42
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Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	29
A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access.	22
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	21
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	17
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	15
Editors’ Report for 2023	14
Editors’ Notes	13
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina	12
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.	12
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	11
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	11
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	11
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	11
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	11
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	11
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	10
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Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	10
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	8
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South	8
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	8
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	8
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	8

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	8
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	7
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La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	7
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Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	6
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	6
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany	6
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	6
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	6
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.	6
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	5
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	5
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	5
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	5
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	5
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	5
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
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Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
Why Join the Fed?	4
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	4
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.	4
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	3
JEH volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
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	3
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.	3
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	3
Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€.	3
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	3
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover.	3
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	3
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	3
The Model T	3
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting	3
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	2
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011	2
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years	2
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	2
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	2
Editors’ Report for 2021	2

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.	2
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	2
Editors’ Notes	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting	2
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.	2
JEH volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	2
JEH volume 83 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World	1
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.	1
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru	1
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	1
Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover.	1
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover.	1
G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944	1
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.	1
Editors’ Notes	1
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912	1
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	1
Sovereign Collateral	0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records	0
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment	0
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	0
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Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office	0
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	0
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth.	0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand	0
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	0
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	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
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870	0
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament	0
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Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
Editors’ Report for 2024	0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe	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
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change	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
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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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
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Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.	0
China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement	0
Editors’ Notes	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
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s	0
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools	0
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover.	0
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe	0
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	0
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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
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	0
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The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932	0
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
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	0
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England	0
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The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	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
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”	0

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0
El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25.	0
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	0
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How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	0
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia	0
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	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
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	0
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980	0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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 Irish in England	0
The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper.	0
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover.	0
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
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	0
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Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover.	0
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation	0
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor	0
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	0
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression	0
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	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
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	0
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	0
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Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	0
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Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
Editors’ Report for 2022	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition	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
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910	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
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	0
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