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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	39
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	29
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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.	22
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	20
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	15
Editors’ Report for 2023	14
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	14
Editors’ Notes	13
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.	11
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	11
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	11
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina	11
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	11
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	10
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	10
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South	8
Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War. By Jim Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 231. $130.00, cloth.	8
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	8
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	8
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	8
JEH volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	7
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	7

Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	7
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	6
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	6
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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	6
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Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	5
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	5
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	5
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany	5
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.	5
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	4
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	4
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	4
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	4
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	4
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	4
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	4
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	4
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	4
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	4
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	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.	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
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	3
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
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An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	3
Why Join the Fed?	3
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	3
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	3
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	3
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	2
The Model T	2
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting	2
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. By Mariana Mazzucato. London: Allen Lane, 2021, Pp. 272. $24.72, hardcover.	2
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€.	2
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	2
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting	2
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	2
Interbank Networks and the Interregional Transmission of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	2
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

Editors’ Report for 2021	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.	1
JEH volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907	1
The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492	1
Revealing the Diversity and Complexity behind Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America: 1920–2011	1
Did the Colonial mita Cause a Population Collapse? What Current Surnames Reveal in Peru	1
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	1
JEH volume 83 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years	1
Editors’ Notes	1
Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973–1982. By Sebastian Alvarez. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 231.	1
G.I. Jane Goes to College? Female Educational Attainment, Earnings, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944	1
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	1
Labor in the Age of Finance. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $39.95, hardcover.	1
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage, and Political Participation	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM	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
Editors’ Notes	0
Bank Lending and Deposit Crunches during the Great Depression	0
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
Measuring the Partisan Behavior of U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980	0
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition	0
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	0
JEH volume 83 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Sovereign Collateral	0
Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	0
The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932	0
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.	0
Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony. Edited by Pierre Pénet and Juan Flores Zendejas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. $115.00, hardc	0
JEH volume 83 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament	0
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation. By Ulrich Bindseil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii + 322 pp. $80, hardcover.	0
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910	0
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament	0
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s	0
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	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
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
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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
JEH volume 83 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	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
Editors’ Notes	0
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Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records	0
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	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
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	0
Consumption Smoothing in the Working-Class Households of Interwar Japan	0
The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990	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
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	0
JEH volume 83 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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
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Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California	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
JEH volume 84 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	0
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression	0
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India	0
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Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	0
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office	0
JEH volume 84 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	0
Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. By William Quinn and John D. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 3296. $24.95, hardcover.	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
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
Using Digitized Newspapers to Address Measurement Error in Historical Data	0
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.	0
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Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia	0

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China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement	0
Editors’ Notes	0
Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand	0
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	0
Editors’ Notes	0
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach	0
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
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain	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
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	0
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government	0
The Irish in England	0
Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”	0
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History. By Viktor Pál. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiv, 263. $151.53, cloth; $116.92, eBook.	0
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Editors’ Report for 2024	0
JEH volume 84 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
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Editors’ Report for 2022	0
Opening Heaven’s Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act	0
Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of the Rule of St Benedict in Medieval England	0
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870	0
Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility	0
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy	0
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	0
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	0
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy. By Colin P. Elliott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $97.69, hardcover; $80.00, Kindle.	0
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.	0
The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe	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
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
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
Art and Markets in the Greco-Roman World	0
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	0
Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis of Tongcheng, China, 1300 to 1900	0
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment	0
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	0
Social Networks and Elite Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Evidence from the Industrialization of Antioquia	0
Adoption, Inheritance, and Wealth Inequality in Pre-industrial Japan and Western Europe	0
Closing Time: The Local Equilibrium Effects of Prohibition	0
Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools	0
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting	0
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants	0
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	0
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Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. By Joshua R. Greenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 245. $34.95, hardcover.	0
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660	0
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	0
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	0
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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
The Distribution of Land in Luxembourg (1766–1872): Family-Level Wealth Persistence in the Midst of Institutional Change	0
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Careworn: The Economic History of Caring Labor	0
The Belle-Epoque of Portfolios? How Returns, Risk, and Diversification Correlated with the Wealth Distribution in Paris in 1912	0
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	0
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	0
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	0