OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic History is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access.	58
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	42
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	38
JEH volume 85 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	27
The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression. By Jason E. Taylor. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. v, 274. $29.35, paper.	23
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting	20
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	18
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	16
Editors’ Notes	16
Editors’ Report for 2023	15
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover.	14
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	13
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	13
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	13
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	12
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	12
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The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940 —ADDENDUM	11
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	11
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	11
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	10
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	10
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	10
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	9

Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	9
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	9
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	9
Institutions, Local Agency, and Allegiance: Healthcare Provision in Colonial India	9
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	8
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	8
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	8
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.	8
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID-19. By Sheilagh C. Ogilvie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. $45.00, hardcover.	8
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.	7
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	6
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	6
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	6
Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno	6
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	6
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	6
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	5
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	5
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	5
Droughts, Conflicts, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe	5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	5
Reconstructing History: Using Language to Estimate Religious Spread	5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	5
JEH volume 85 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Why Join the Fed?	4
Railroad Bailouts in the Great Depression	4
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover.	4
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility	4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
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Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	3
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income. By Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 258. $32.50, cloth. ISBN-13: 978	3
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	3
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin. By Jeronim Perović. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x, 250. £80.00, hardcover.	3
Creating American Farmland: Governance Institutions and Investment in Agricultural Drainage	3
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	3
Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle. By Cédric Quertier. Rome, Italy: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. xiv, 600. 35€.	3
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	3
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	3
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages. By Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 536. $20.10, hardcover; $19.95, paper.	3
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. By Chris Miller. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Pp. 464. $32.00, hardcover.	2
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	2
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	2
Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper.	2
The Model T	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting	2

Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Late-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Manufacturing Firms	2
JEH volume 85 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	2
Institutional Innovation and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of Steam	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting	2
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.	2
Editors’ Notes	2
Editors’ Notes	1
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. By Justene Hill Edwards. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. Pp. i.x, 320. $29.99, hardcover.	1
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier. By Bogdan G. Popescu. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii + 300. $87.56, hardcover.	1
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011	1
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	1
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World	1
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.	1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	1
Editors’ Notes	1
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	1
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	1
JEH volume 83 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper.	1
Large Fires and the Rise of Fire Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	1
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	1
JEH volume 84 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	0
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	0
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Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900	0
Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. By Carola Binder. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 352. $35.00, cloth.	0
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	0
Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change	0
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980	0
Editors’ Report for 2022	0
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932	0
One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850. By Christopher M. Meissner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 330. £64.00, cloth; £22.99, paper.	0
Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records	0
JEH volume 83 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor	0
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 Years of British Campaign Spending	0
Editors’ Report for 2024	0
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency. By Oliver Volckart. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. $39.99, hardcover.	0
JEH volume 82 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	0
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	0
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	0
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States. By Michelle Craig McDonald. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Pp. 271. $45.00, hardcover; $45.00, eBook.	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy. By Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. £22.99, paper; £70.00, cloth.	0
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England	0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s	0
International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908	0
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	0
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	0
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Editors’ Notes	0
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Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools	0
El Pan Nuestro: A History of the Corn Tortilla. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato Freer. Mexico City: Colegio de Mexico, 2024. Pp. 610, il. $25.	0
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	0
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The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. By Richard N. Langlois. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 816. $45.00 cloth.	0
The Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort. By Mark Carlson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 240. $40.00, cloth.	0
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover.	0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand	0
The Political Economy of Commodity Cartel Formation: The Case of Coffee, 1930–1940	0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia	0
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”	0
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	0
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	0
Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook.	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	0
Editors’ Notes	0
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
JEH volume 83 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0

Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	0
Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-316	0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe	0
The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. $64.95, hardcover.	0
The Irish in England	0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s: Law and Political Economy. By Jérôme Sgard. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Pp. 354. $165.00, hardcover.	0
What Happened to the Incomes of the Rich during the Great Levelling? Evidence from Swedish Individual-Level Data, 1909–1950	0
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. By Gregg Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx, 523. $120.00, hardcover.	0
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	0
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Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0
Who Wins and Loses in a Bubble? Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania	0
Growing, Shrinking, and Long-Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development	0
The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper.	0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870	0
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation	0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	0
Voting Rights and Media Sentiment: Evidence from Early Suffrage States	0
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. By Daniel Waldenström. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 253. $29.95, hardcover.	0
Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666–1794	0
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Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50.	0
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The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	0
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 422. $21.17, hardcover; $18.49, Kindle.	0
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression	0
JEH volume 82 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	0
Firm Networks in the Great Depression	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India	0
Sovereign Collateral	0
Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover.	0
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	0
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D. By Eric S. Hintz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $60.00, paper; $41.99, Kindle.	0
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	0
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	0
Editors’ Notes	0
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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover.	0
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912	0
The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal	0
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover.	0
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	0
Financial Innovation and Resilience: A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462–1808). Edited by Lilia Costabile and Larry Neal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. xix, 372. €155.9	0
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe	0
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2024. Pp. 752. $23.86, hardcover.	0
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	0
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	0
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Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office	0
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El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350.	0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0