OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Explorations in 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	20
Editorial Board	17
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Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	16
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	15
Editorial Board	13
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Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	12
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	9
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality	8
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	8
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	7
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	7
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony	7
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	7
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	7
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	7
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492	6
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910	6
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set	6
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	6
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934	6
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	6
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain	6
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	5

Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	5
Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–1926	5
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France	4
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	4
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden	4
Preface	4
Editorial Board	3
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	3
Digitization and data frames for card index records	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	3
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	3
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence	3
Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917)	3
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	3
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	2
Editorial Board	2
Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war	2
Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika	2
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	2
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	2
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory	2
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	2
Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	2
Balancing economic stress: The role of rural-urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium	2
Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era	2
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	2
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	1
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	1
Muslim conquest and institutional formation	1
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis	1
Editorial Board	1
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	1
Debt policy in Spanish America during the seventeenth century	1
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	1
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	1
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings	1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	1
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?	1
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	1
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	1
The economic impact of social distancing: Evidence from state-collected data during the 1918 influenza pandemic	1
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	0
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	0
Editorial Board	0
Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data	0

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	0
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis	0
Confucianism and science	0
Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882	0
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016	0
Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571	0
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	0
Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain	0
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	0
Editorial Board	0
Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence	0
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914	0
Quantifying racial discrimination in the 1944 G.I. bill	0
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation	0
Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain	0
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project	0
Editorial Board	0
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960	0
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	0
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	0
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	0
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	0
Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1911	0
Politics and eminent domain: Evidence from the 1879 California constitution	0
Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History	0
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg	0
The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach	0
Editorial Board	0
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	0
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913	0
Fueling the party machine: Evidence from Greece during Metapolitefsi	0
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	0
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	0
War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe	0
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	0
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	0
Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families	0
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	0
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	0
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	0
Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–1936	0
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	0
De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing	0
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	0
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 1736	0
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	0
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	0
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	0
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	0
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	0
Editorial Board	0
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	0
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark	0
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	0
Incredible commitment: Influence accumulation, consensus-making, and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	0
European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–2000	0
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	0
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	0
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire	0
Exploring 200 years of U.S. commodity market integration: A structural time series model approach	0
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	0
Agglomeration and creativity in early modern Britain	0
Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source	0
Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018	0
Editorial Board	0
Inland Bills of Exchange: Private Money Production without Banks+	0
Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain	0
The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–2009	0
Editorial Board	0
Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya	0
Editorial Board	0
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	0
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99	0
Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland	0
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men	0