OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Explorations in Economic History is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19	66
How the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shaped economic activity in the American West	18
Collider bias in economic history research	17
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set	16
The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach	16
Church building and the economy during Europe’s ‘Age of the Cathedrals’, 700–1500 CE	15
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis	15
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation	15
Privatization and business groups: Evidence from the Chicago Boys in Chile	14
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire	13
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden	11
The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930	10
Settlement location shapes the integration of forced migrants: Evidence from post-war Germany	10
The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938	10
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality	10
Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d’Anxure, 1730–1895	8
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960	7
Fiscal innovation in nondemocratic regimes: Elites and the adoption of the prussian income taxes of the 1890s	7
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016	6
Quantifying the impact of aid to dependent children: An epidemiological framework	6
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910	6
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	6
Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870–2017 a more socially mobile society than England?	6
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	5
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	5

Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	5
Schools without a law: Primary education in France from the Revolution to the Guizot Law	5
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	5
Enterprise form: Theory and history	5
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis	5
Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917)	5
Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy	4
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	4
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	4
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	4
Internal immigrant mobility in the early 20th century: evidence from Galveston, Texas	4
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	4
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg	4
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	4
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	4