OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Explorations in Economic History is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	18
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	16
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	13
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	12
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	12
Editorial Board	11
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	11
Editorial Board	10
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	8
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain	8
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	8
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	7
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	7
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	6
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	6
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	6
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	6
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	5
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	5
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	5
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	4
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	4

The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	4
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	4
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	4
Editorial Board	4
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	4
The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	4
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	4
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	3
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	3
Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project	3
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	3
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	3
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	3
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
War bonds and household saving in WWII	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	3
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	3
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	2
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	2
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)	2
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	2
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913	2
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction	2
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	2
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	2
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	2
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	2
Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War	2
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	2
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	2
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	2
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	2
Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination	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
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950	2