Journal of Economic History

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Back matter48
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–191139
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review32
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
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China22
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting20
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 184618
Editors’ Report for 202314
Editors’ Notes13
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)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.13
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–194013
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina13
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria11
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data11
JEH volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Front matter10
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns10
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–182310
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.9
JEH volume 85 issue 2 Cover and Front matter9
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation9
Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South8
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization8
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England8
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy8
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy8
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas8
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–17488
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Front matter7
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India7
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities7
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.6
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited6
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–19716
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations5
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years5
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits5
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing5
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–19335
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s5
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages5
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development4
Why Join the Fed?4
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–18794
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
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter4
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