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 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
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	29
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	29
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
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
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
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	10
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	10
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
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
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	7
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
JEH volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	6
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	6
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
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
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
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	5
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	5
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
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
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
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
JEH volume 84 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
JEH volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3