Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2026

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Volume 100, issue C, 2026

Economic consequences of the 1933 Soviet famine

Natalya Naumenko

Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform

Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, Giampaolo Lecce and Matteo Magnaricotte

Leaving the “Fourth Shore”: The effect of Italian farmers’ expulsions from post-colonial Libya, 1930–2005

Mattia Cosma Bertazzini

A better ride: New evidence on travel and the quality of roads in England and Wales, 1660-1820

Dan Bogart, Alan Rosevear and Leigh Shaw-Taylor

Revisiting the link between electrification and fertility: Evidence from the early 20th-century United States

Daniela Vidart

The geography of opportunity after the Civil War: Black and white Americans’ intra- and intergenerational mobility into property ownership

William J. Collins and Nicholas C. Holtkamp

The impact of extreme climate events and agricultural diversification in the British West Indies, 1850–1960

Julia Schlosser

Where is place in the history of work? Worksites, workspaces, and the home-work nexus

Benjamin Schneider and Jane Whittle

Regional variation of GDP per head within China, 1080–1850: Implications for the great divergence debate

Stephen Broadberry and Hanhui Guan

Volume 99, issue C, 2026

Soaring in rationality: Bonds as a partial hedge against hyperinflation

Zhihao Xu

Risk-coping behaviors in metropolis: Evidence from working-class households in Prewar Tokyo

Kota Ogasawara

A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam

Luu Duc Toan Huynh and Kiet Tuan Duong

Living standards in Angola, 1760–197511This work is an output from the project “Measuring the Great Divergence: A study of global standards of living, 1500–1950″, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/W001578/1). We thank Robert C. Allen, Gareth Austin, Stephen Broadberry, Rui Pedro Esteves, Bronwen Everill, James Fenske, Leigh Gardner, Michiel de Haas, Anthony G. Hopkins, Klas Rönnbäck, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, William G. Clarence-Smith, Jelmer Vos, Rebecca Simson, Marlous van Waijenburg, Jacob Weisdorf, and speakers at several talks for comments. Leticia Arroyo Abad and Eric Schneider kindly shared data. Mariana Martins Cardoso provided research assistance. We are grateful to the Penha Foundation for financial support

Hélder Carvalhal and Nuno Palma

Democratization, personal wealth of politicians and voting behavior

Bas Machielsen

Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history

Melanie Meng Xue

The economic functions of extrajudicial violence in the Jim Crow South

Mark Stelzner and William Darity

Missing markets. Microstructure and liquidity on the London Stock Exchange

Rui Esteves and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development

Daniel Oto-Peralías

Volume 98, issue C, 2025

Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?

Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth

The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain

Gary W. Cox and Valentin Figueroa

Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes

Jonathan Jayes, Jakob Molinder and Kerstin Enflo

Natural disasters, missing pupils: Evidence from colonial Jamaica’s school system

Joel Huesler

Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction

Tommy Bengtsson and Cameron Campbell

Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII

Yutaro Izumi and Sangyoon Park

Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Strøm

Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950

María Gómez-León and Giacomo Gabbuti

Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice

Donato Masciandaro, Davide Romelli and Stefano Ugolini

Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project

Kasey Buckles, Adrian Haws, Joseph Price and Haley E.B. Wilbert

Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)

Marco Martinez, Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta

Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination

Ningning Ma and Yiling Zhao

Incentives and the economics of freedom: Slave peculium, manumission and paramone in ancient Greece

Laurent Gauthier

Volume 97, issue C, 2025

Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers

Satomi Kurosu and Hao Dong

Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes: The Relationship between Access to Land and the Demographic System in 19th-century Rural Tuscany

M. Manfredini, A. Fornasin and M. Breschi

Do local conditions determine the direction of science? Evidence from U.S. land grant colleges

Michael Andrews and Alexa Smith

The paradox of slave collateral

Rajesh P. Narayanan and Jonathan Pritchett

Fertility and mortality responses to short-term economic stress: Evidence from two Hungarian sample populations, 1819-1914

Péter Őri and Levente Pakot

Socioeconomic differences in population growth in 19th century Liaoning, China: a decomposition

Cameron Campbell and James Z. Lee

The world’s first global safe asset: British public debt, 1718-1913

Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez and Gabriel Mathy

Monetary policy at the periphery during the Classical Gold Standard: Italy (1894–1913)

Paolo Di Martino and Fabio Bagliano

The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy

Giuliana Freschi and Marco Molteni

Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis

David Chilosi and Carlo Ciccarelli

Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan

Junichi Yamasaki

Mobilizing the manpower of mothers: Childcare under the Lanham Act during WWII

Claudia Goldin, Claudia Olivetti and Joseph Ferrie

Did war mobilization cause aggregate and regional growth?

Taylor Jaworski and Dongkyu Yang

Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Krzysztof Karbownik, Daniel I. Rees and Camila Steffens

The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group

Sergio E. Barrera, Andreas Ferrara, Price Fishback and Misty L. Heggeness

Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines

Jacob Greenspon and Gordon Hanson

The economics of Greco-Roman slavery

Rafael Guthmann and Walter Scheidel

Ascending from the bottom rung: The labor market assimilation of rural-urban migrants in Sweden, 1880–1910

Jonatan Andersson

War bonds and household saving in WWII

Gillian Brunet, Eric Hilt and Matthew Jaremski

The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Tommy Morgan, Joseph Price and William Wygal

The long campaign: Britain’s fight to end the slave trade

Yi Jie Gwee and Hui Ren Tan

Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920

Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe and Jonas Helgertz

From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia

Viktor Malein

Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression

Mark Carlson

Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy

William Collins, Andreas Ferrara and Price Fishback

Early-life lead exposure and male longevity: Evidence from historical municipal water systems

Jason Fletcher and Hamid Noghanibehambari