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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19	71
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set	20
The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach	17
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis	17
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation	16
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire	15
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	13
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality	12
The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938	12
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden	12
Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917)	8
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960	8
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis	7
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	7
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	7
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016	7
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910	7
War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe	7
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	7
Schools without a law: Primary education in France from the Revolution to the Guizot Law	6
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	6
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	6
Confucianism and science	6
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	6
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6

Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	6
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	6
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	5
Go active or stay passive: Investment trust, financial innovation and diversification in Belgium's early days	5
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	5
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg	5
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	4
Decomposing the U.S. Great Depression: How important were loan supply shocks?	4
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	4
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	4
Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571	3
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark	3
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 1736	3
Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java	3
The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–2009	3
Short-term residential mortgage contracts in American economic history	3
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	3
Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	3
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men	2
Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain	2
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?	2
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	2
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492	2
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	2
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion	2
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration	2
Digitization and data frames for card index records	2
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	2
Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source	2
The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity	2
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	2
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings	2
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	2
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	2
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	1
Fueling the party machine: Evidence from Greece during Metapolitefsi	1
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project	1
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913	1
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	1
Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence	1
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	1
Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–1936	1
The economic impact of social distancing: Evidence from state-collected data during the 1918 influenza pandemic	1
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	1
The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession	1
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	1
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	1

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