OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cliometrica is 1. 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 origins of Italian human capital divides: new evidence from marriage signatures, ca. 1815	14
The linguistic wage gap in Quebec, 1901 to 1951	7
Determinants in the adoption of a non-labor-substitution technology: mechanical ventilation in West Virginia coal mines, 1898–1907	7
Darwin beats malthus: evolutionary anthropology, human capital and the demographic transition	6
Benchmarking Latvia’s economy: a new estimate of gross domestic product in the 1930s	5
Gender inequality in a transition economy: heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640–1850	5
Judicial independence and lynching in historical context: an analysis of US States	5
European consumer price indices since 1870	4
The impact of progressive era labor regulations on annual earnings and employment in manufacturing in the USA, 1904–1919	4
Is economic history changing its nature? Evidence from top journals	4
Regional variation in the GDP per capita of colonial Indonesia, 1870–1930	4
Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the UK 1820–1913: a new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis	4
Measuring stock market integration during the Gold Standard	3
Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century	3
Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the practice of violence	3
A transaction-cost model of chronic specie scarcity and the evolution of monetary structures in constrained colonial economies	2
The European marriage pattern and the sensitivity of female age at marriage to economic context. Montesquieu-Volvestre, 1660–1789	2
Call the midwife. Health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887–1920	2
Brotherhood and unity: ethnic diversity and economic performance in socialist Yugoslavia	2
Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871–2016	2
The long-run persistence in dividend policy	2
Starting high school? On the origins of secondary education in Spain, 1857–1901	2
Impact of tropical storms on the banking sector in the British Colonial Caribbean	2
British slave emancipation and the demand for Brazilian sugar	2
The productive efficiency of U.S. blacksmiths in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	1

Strangling speculation: the effect of the 1903 Viennese futures trading ban	1
Railroads, fertility and the demographic transition in England and Wales	1
Confucianism and war mobilization: evidence from Chinese revolutions	1
Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930	1
The urban–rural height gap: evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia	1
Correction to: Why does Okun’s law change? Essay in econometric history	1
Claudia Goldin: Nobel Prize 2023 paving the way for women and gender perspectives in economics	1
No revenge of the places that don't matter? Evidence from Italy’s Cassa per il Mezzogiorno	1
Determinants of seasonal circular migration during Spain’s rural exodus, 1955–1973	1
Cliometrics of learning-adjusted years of schooling: evidence from a new dataset	1
Convergence in the biological standard of living: further explorations on two Italian birth cohorts, 1951–1980	1
Spatial patterns of steam technology diffusion in nineteenth-century France	1
Escaping from hunger before WW1: the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century	1
The benefits of US statehood: an analysis of the growth effects of joining the USA	1
Primary education and economic growth in nineteenth-century France	1
Education and household decision-making in Spanish mining communities, 1877–1924	1
The persistence of social inequality in adult mortality in rural Spain, death cohorts 1546–1940	1