OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economic History Review is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800^†	24
Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850	20
The Irish economy during the century after partition	20
Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy†	17
Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution^†	17
Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations	17
Augmented human development in the age of globalization^†	12
Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019†	11
The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization†	11
The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016	10
‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century^†	10
Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844	10
The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 ^†	10
Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967	10
War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913^†	8
Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)^†	8
Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe†	8
After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–1835	8
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934	7
Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona^†	7
Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico^†	7
The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866	7
Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861	7
Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 1913	7
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869	7

Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923	6
Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber	6
Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666	6
Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset†	6
Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport	5
Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60^†	5
From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019	5
Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	5
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)	5
Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers	5
Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy	5
Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14^†	4
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth	4
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective	4
Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes^†	4
Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism†	4
An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913	4
Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction	4
History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy	4
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 1902	4
Paesaniversuspaisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration^†	4
Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†	4
How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?†	4
Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c. 1870–1910	4
Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948^†	4
Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?	4
The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes†	3
Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney^†	3
Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)	3
Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s	3
Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia	3
Consumer revolution in north‐western Germany: Material culture, global goods, and proto‐industry in rural households in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries	3
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–1940	3
Demographic trends in late‐slavery Jamaica, 1817–32	3
Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83	3
Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth‐century Lyon	3
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?	3
Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022	3
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913	3
The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850)	3
Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–1911	3
Short‐ and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil	3
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions	3
Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921	3
English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries	3
Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden^†	2
The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 1720	2
Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750^†	2
Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century	2
Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83	2

Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand's Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 1903	2
A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub‐sector pattern, and region	2
Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census	2
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States	2
Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland	2
The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population†	2
Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)	2
Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution	2
Credit risk in colonial India	2
Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s	2
The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS	2
Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556†	1
The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic	1
Individual investors and social ownership structures in the UK before the 1930s: Joint holdings and trustee investment	1
Firm survival and the rise of the factory	1
Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard,c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages	1
The price of poverty: The association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947–2015	1
New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845–1909	1
Introduction to the symposium on inequality	1
‘Los von London’: A comparative, empirical analysis of German and British global foreign banking and trade development, 1881–1913	1
Autarky in Franco's Spain: The costs of a closed economy	1
Fiscal policy under constraints: Fiscal capacity and austerity during the Great Depression	1
Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–1604	1
Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–1914	1
A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–1714	1
Power politics and the expansion of US exports, 1879–1938	1
Gender and justice: The status of women in Ottoman courts	1
Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia	1
Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s	1
The emergence of double entry bookkeeping	1
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International entrepreneurship without investor protection: Evidence from initial public offerings in Belgium before the First World War	1
Driven by crises: Price integration on the grain market in late medieval Flanders	1
Exploring modern bank penetration: Evidence from early twentieth‐century Netherlands	1
The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies	1
Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–9	1
Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12^†	1
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850	1
New evidence on wine in French international trade (1848–1913): Import discrimination as export quality promotion	1
From circular to permanent: The economic assimilation of migrants during Spain's rural exodus, 1955–73	1
Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth‐century Moscow	1
Contesting the preferred creditor status of the League of Nations, 1931–3^†	1
Making the municipal capital market in nineteenth‐century England†	1
Dating business cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700–2010	1
Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society	1
Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–2019	1
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) in prewar China: Communal finance and the roots of economic development	1
Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: The case of Cambridgeshire	1
Credibility building in the sovereign debt market: Evidence from prewar China	1
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A. G.Hopkins, An economic history of West Africa (London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. v+399. 17 maps. 6 figs. ISBN 978036700243 Hbk. £120.00)	1
The great margin call: The role of leverage in the 1929 Wall Street crash	1
The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830	1
What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia	1
Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England	1
Aesthetics for a polite society: Language and the marketing of second‐hand goods in eighteenth‐century London	1
The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East	1
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