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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	20
Editorial Board	17
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	15
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	13
Editorial Board	13
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	12
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain	11
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	11
Digitization and data frames for card index records	11
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	10
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	10
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	9
Editorial Board	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	9
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	9
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	8
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	7
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	7
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	7
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	7
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	7
Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform	6
Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history	6

Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?	5
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	5
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	5
War bonds and household saving in WWII	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	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	5
Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project	5
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	5
The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	4
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	4
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	4
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)	4
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	4
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	4
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	4
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	4
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	4
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	4
Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination	4