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Papers

(The median citation count of Explorations in Economic History 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	26
Editorial Board	15
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	14
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	13
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	12
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
Editorial Board	10
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	9
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	9
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	8
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	8
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	8
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	6
Editorial Board	6
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	6
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	5
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	4
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	4
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	4
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	4
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	4
War bonds and household saving in WWII	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
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	3
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	3
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	3
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	2
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	2
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	2
Editorial Board	2
Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective	2
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	2
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	2
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	2
Editorial Board	2
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	2
The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	2
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	2
Editorial Board	2
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	2
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950	2
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	2

Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	1
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	1
Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis	1
Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression	1
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	1
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	1
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	1
Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	1
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	1
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	1
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	1
Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan	1
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	1
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	1
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	1
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	1
Editorial Board	1
Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy	1
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	1
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	1
The paradox of slave collateral	1
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	1
Editorial Board	1