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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	24
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	21
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	17
Editorial Board	16
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	16
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	13
The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain	12
Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?	12
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	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
Digitization and data frames for card index records	10
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	9
Editorial Board	9
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	9
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	9
The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913	8
Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes	8
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	8
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
Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines	6
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6
Politics and institutional change: The Water Commission Act of 1913	6

Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project	5
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	5
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	5
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	5
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	5
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	5
The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia	5
Estimating grain storage with probate inventories: Kent and Cornwall, 1600-1750	5
Locked in the past: Old housing and the adoption of electric heating	5
Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?	5
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	5
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)	5
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
War bonds and household saving in WWII	5
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	4
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	4
Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)	4
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany	4
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	4
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	4
Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination	4
Missing markets. Microstructure and liquidity on the London Stock Exchange	4
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	4
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	4
Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers	4
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	4
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture	4