OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Explorations in Economic History is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard	22
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	15
Editorial Board	15
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap	14
Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation	11
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow	10
Editorial Board	9
Digitization and data frames for card index records	9
Editorial Board	9
Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment	8
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932	8
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	7
Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan	7
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression	7
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	7
Social democracy and the decline of strikes	7
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization	7
Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill	6
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South	6
The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884	6
Editorial Board	6
Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad	6
Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence	6
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	5

Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data	5
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840	5
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution	5
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	5
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression	5
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland	4
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907)	4
Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920	3
Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII	3
Wealth and history: A reappraisal	3
Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide	3
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930	3
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	3
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	3
Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century	3
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?	3
Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony	3
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money	3
Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects	3
Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America	3
Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380]	3