OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic History is 4. 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 Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933	17
The Effect of War Risk on Managerial and Investor Behavior: Evidence from the Brussels Stock Exchange in the Pre-1914 Era	17
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	16
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results	14
Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s	14
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of American Farm Productivity Growth	12
The Gender Wage Gap in Early Modern Toledo, 1550–1650	11
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820–1847	11
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	11
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992	10
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	9
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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