OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	22
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	14
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	10
Editorial Board	9
Digitization and data frames for card index records	9
Editorial Board	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	8
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	7
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	7
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	7
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	7
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	7
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	6
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Editorial Board	6
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	6
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5

Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	5
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	3
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	2
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	2
Editorial Board	2
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression	2
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth	2
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	2
Editorial Board	2
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	2
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration	2
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	2
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries	2
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	2
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	2
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion	2
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	1
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	1
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?	1
Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history	1
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	1
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	1
The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy	1
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?	1
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world	1
Editorial Board	1
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	1

Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia	1
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition	1
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	1
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	1
Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads	1
The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967	1