OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi Party	35
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu	33
European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War	28
The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933	24
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850	23
What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data	19
Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–1962	18
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850	18
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of American Farm Productivity Growth	17
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	14
Where Is the Middle Class? Evidence from 60 Million English Death and Probate Records, 1892–1992	13
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession	12
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	11
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	11
Safety at Sea during the Industrial Revolution	10
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	9
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965	9
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking	9
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910	9
China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Restatement	8
Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India	8
Biological Innovation without Intellectual Property Rights: Cottonseed Markets in the Antebellum American South	8
More Power to the People: Electricity Adoption, Technological Change, and Labor Conflict	8
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales	7
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	7

Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India	7
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	7
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence	7
Collective Action and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende’s Expropriations	7
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment	7
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	7
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	6
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	6
Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia	6
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	6
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics	5
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	5
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890	5
The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911	5
Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar	5
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	4
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	4
Explaining Anomalous Wage Inflation in the 1930s United States	4
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany	4
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century	4
Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Bank Failures and Near Failures That Started America’s Greatest Financial Panics	4
Biological Living Standards of Korea during the Port-Opening Period, 1876–1910	4
Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910	4
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901	4
Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment	4
The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860: Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment	4
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital	4
Canals and Orchards: The Impact of Transport Network Access on Agricultural Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok	3
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France	3
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	3
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929	3
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution	3
Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression	3
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949	3
Private Benefits, Public Vices: Railways and Logrolling in the Nineteenth-Century British Parliament	3
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	3
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa	3
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	3
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South	3