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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19	71
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set	20
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis	17
The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach	17
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation	16
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire	15
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries	13
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden	12
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality	12
The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938	12
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960	8
Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917)	8
War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe	7
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide	7
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis	7
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900	7
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810	7
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016	7
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910	7
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names	6
Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France	6
Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration	6
Schools without a law: Primary education in France from the Revolution to the Guizot Law	6
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers	6
When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset	6

Confucianism and science	6
Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)	6
Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition	5
Go active or stay passive: Investment trust, financial innovation and diversification in Belgium's early days	5
The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile	5
Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg	5
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933	4
Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900	4
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925	4
Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891	4
Decomposing the U.S. Great Depression: How important were loan supply shocks?	4