OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	30
Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party	27
European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War	22
The Effect of War Risk on Managerial and Investor Behavior: Evidence from the Brussels Stock Exchange in the Pre-1914 Era	19
Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism	19
The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933	19
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–1962	18
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results	17
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	17
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	16
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	14
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States, 1820–1847	12
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	11
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	11
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	10
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992	10
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	9
The Return to Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Evidence from Twins	9
Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution	8
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	8
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	7
The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise	7
El Sueño Americano? The Generational Progress of Mexican Americans Prior to World War II	7

Economic Growth and the Development of Real Wages: Swedish Construction Workers’ Wages in Comparative Perspective, 1831–1900	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
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965	6
Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice	6
Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India	6
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	6
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	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
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	6
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	6
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	6
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	6
Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations	5
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	5
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	5
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	5
Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and the “Sinn Féin Election” in Ireland, 1918	5
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	5
Biological Innovation without Intellectual Property Rights: Cottonseed Markets in the Antebellum American South	5
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	4
Biological Living Standards of Korea during the Port-Opening Period, 1876–1910	4
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	4
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	4
Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar	4
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910	4
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment	4
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s	3
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	3
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	3
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	3
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	3
Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok	3
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	3
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament	3