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Explorations in Economic History
1969 - 2013
Edited by R.H. Steckel
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Volume 50, issue 1 , 2013
1381 and the Malthus delusion pp. 4-15
Gregory Clark
When did Britain industrialise? The sectoral distribution of the labour force and labour productivity in Britain, 1381–1851 pp. 16-27
Stephen Broadberry , Bruce M.S. Campbell and Bas van Leeuwen
The determinants of local population growth: A study of Oxfordshire in the nineteenth century pp. 28-45
Mark Casson
Europe's many integrations: Geography and grain markets, 1620–1913 pp. 46-68
David Chilosi , Tommy E. Murphy , Roman Studer and Ali Coskun Tuncer
Retail development in the consumer revolution: The Netherlands, c. 1670–c. 1815 pp. 69-87
Danielle van den Heuvel and Sheilagh Ogilvie
Globalization revisited: Market integration and the wheat trade between North America and Britain from the eighteenth century pp. 88-98
Paul Richard Sharp and Jacob Louis Weisdorf
Real wages and the family: Adjusting real wages to changing demography in pre-modern England pp. 99-115
Eric Schneider
Soviet power plus electrification: What is the long-run legacy of communism? pp. 116-147
Wendy Carlin , Mark E Schaffer and Paul Seabright
Beyond black and white: Color and mortality in post-reconstruction era North Carolina pp. 148-159
Tiffany L. Green and Tod G. Hamilton
Volume 49, issue 4 , 2012
Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s pp. 381-398
Alan Irwin Barreca , Price Vanmeter Fishback and Shawn Kantor
Deadly anchor: Gender bias under Russian colonization of Kazakhstan pp. 399-422
Gani Aldashev and Catherine Guirkinger
The price of Cherokee removal pp. 423-442
Matthew T. Gregg and David M. Wishart
When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951 pp. 443-460
Emanuele Felice and Albert Carreras
The role of the media in a bubble pp. 461-481
Gareth Campbell , John D. Turner and Clive B. Walker
Inequality of land tenure and revolutionary outcome: An economic analysis of China's land reform of 1946–1952 pp. 482-497
James Kai-sing Kung , Xiaogang Wu and Yuxiao Wu
“The people's will”: Canadians and the 1898 referendum on alcohol prohibition pp. 498-515
Benoit Dostie and Ruth Dupré
Was technological change in the early Industrial Revolution Schumpeterian? Evidence of cotton textile profitability pp. 516-527
Knick Harley
Migration to U.S. frontier cities and job opportunity, 1860–1880 pp. 528-542
James . Stewart
Monthly GDP estimates for inter-war Britain pp. 543-556
James Mitchell , Solomos Nicolaou Solomou and Martin Robert Weale
Volume 49, issue 3 , 2012
Smallpox and Native American mortality: The 1780s epidemic in the Hudson Bay region pp. 277-290
Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis
Legacy, location, and labor: Accounting for racial differences in postbellum cotton production pp. 291-302
Neil Canaday and Matthew Steven Jaremski
The international political economy of early modern copper mercantilism: Rent seeking and copper money in Sweden 1624–1776 pp. 303-315
Rodney Edvinsson
Good schools make good neighbors: Human capital spillovers in early 20th century agriculture pp. 316-334
John Parman
America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930 pp. 335-351
Tomas Cvrcek
Myopia or strategic behavior? Indian regimes and the East India Company in late eighteenth century India pp. 352-366
Mandar Oak and Anand V. Swamy
Military service and economic mobility: Evidence from the American civil war pp. 367-379
Chulhee Lee
Volume 49, issue 2 , 2012
Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807 pp. 119-130
Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen
What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs? pp. 131-148
Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie
Between conquest and independence: Real wages and demographic change in Spanish America, 1530–1820 pp. 149-166
Leticia Arroyo Abad , Elwyn Davies and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI pp. 167-188
Petra Moser
New Belgian Stock Market Returns: 1832–1914 pp. 189-204
Jan Annaert , Frans Buelens and Marc J.K. De Ceuster
Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity? pp. 205-220
Yvonne Stolz and Joerg Baten
Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China pp. 221-240
Latika Chaudhary , Aldo Musacchio , Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Exports, imports and growth pp. 241-254
Barbara Pistoresi and Alberto Rinaldi
The determinants of industrial location in Spain, 1856–1929 pp. 255-275
Julio Martinez-Galarraga
Volume 49, issue 1 , 2012
Technology and the great divergence: Global economic development since 1820 pp. 1-16
Robert C. Allen
British relative economic decline revisited: The role of competition pp. 17-29
Nicholas Crafts
Resisting the melting pot: The long term impact of maintaining identity for Franco-Americans in New England pp. 30-59
Mary MacKinnon and Daniel Parent
Korea's first industrial revolution, 1911–1940 pp. 60-74
Myung Soo Cha and Nak Nyeon Kim
Myopic rationality in a Mania pp. 75-91
Gareth Campbell
Citation success: Evidence from economic history journal publications pp. 92-104
Gianfranco Di Vaio , Daniel Waldenström and Jacob Louis Weisdorf
The balance-of-payments constraint on economic growth in a long-term perspective: Spain, 1850–2000 pp. 105-117
Oscar Bajo-Rubio
Volume 48, issue 4 , 2011
Socioeconomic status in childhood and health after age 70: A new longitudinal analysis for the U.S., 1895–2005 pp. 445-460
Joseph Ferrie and Karen Rolf
Female salaries and careers in British banking, 1915–41 pp. 461-477
Andrew Seltzer
Danger on the exchange: How counterparty risk was managed on the Paris exchange in the nineteenth century pp. 478-493
Angelo Riva and Eugene Nelson White
A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries pp. 494-506
Branko Milanovic
Inventing social capital: Evidence from African American inventors, 1843–1930 pp. 507-518
Lisa D. Cook
Conflict and compromise: Changes in U.S. strike outcomes, 1880 to 1945 pp. 519-537
Thomas M. Geraghty and Thomas Wiseman
Trends and cycles in regional economic growth pp. 538-555
Martin Henning , Kerstin Sofia Enflo and Fredrik N.G. Andersson
Government decisions before and during the First World War and the living standards in Germany during a drastic natural experiment pp. 556-567
Matthias Blum
Commercialization as exogenous shocks: The effect of the soybean trade and migration in Manchurian villages, 1895–1934 pp. 568-589
James Kai-sing Kung and Nan Li
Measuring living standards from the lowest: Height of the male Hangryu deceased in colonial Korea pp. 590-599
Duol Kim and Heejin Park
Monetization and growth in colonial New England, 1703–1749 pp. 600-613
Peter Rousseau and Caleb Stroup
Volume 48, issue 3 , 2011
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction pp. 343-356
Tommy Bengtsson and Frans van Poppel
Long-term changes in social mortality differentials, Geneva, 1625-2004 pp. 357-365
Reto Schumacher and Michel Oris
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866-1925 pp. 366-375
M. Breschi , A. Fornasin , M. Manfredini , S. Mazzoni and L. Pozzi
Wealth and health in 19th Century Sweden. A study of social differences in adult mortality in the Sundsvall region pp. 376-388
Sören Edvinsson and Marie Lindkvist
The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials: A micro-level study of adult mortality in southern Sweden 1815-1968 pp. 389-400
Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe
Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850-2004 pp. 401-417
Niels Schenk and Frans van Poppel
Inequality and infant and childhood mortality in the United States in the twentieth century pp. 418-428
Michael R. Haines
Once were farmers: Occupation, social mobility, and mortality during industrialization in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec 1840-1971 pp. 429-440
Alain Gagnon , Marc Tremblay , Hélène Vézina and Jamie A. Seabrook
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: A postscript pp. 441-443
Michael R. Haines and Joseph P. Ferrie
Volume 48, issue 2 , 2011
Agricultural institutions, industrialization and growth: The case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870-1940 pp. 151-168
Jorge Álvarez , Ennio Bilancini , D'Alessandro, Simone and Gabriel Porcile
Labour market response to globalisation: Spain, 1880-1913 pp. 169-188
Concha Betrán and Maria A. Pons
The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750-1810 pp. 189-206
John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty
The health cost of living in a city: The case of France at the end of the 19th century pp. 207-225
Lionel Kesztenbaum and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
National and international market integration in the 19th century: Evidence from comovement pp. 226-242
Martin Uebele
The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective pp. 243-271
Pierre-Philippe Combes , Miren LAFOURCADE , Jacques-François Thisse and Jean-Claude Toutain
The origins of Japanese technological modernization pp. 272-291
Tom Nicholas
The Western European marriage pattern and economic development pp. 292-309
James S. Foreman-Peck
Technological diffusion and the Union blockade pp. 310-324
Bruce W. Hetherington and Peter J. Kower
Airborne diseases: Tuberculosis in the Union Army pp. 325-342
Javier A. Birchenall
Volume 48, issue 1 , 2011
Serial defaults, serial profits: Returns to sovereign lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600 pp. 1-19
Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth
Globalization, industrialization and urbanization in Pre-World War II Southeast Asia pp. 20-36
Gregg Huff and Luis Angeles
When and why did eastern European economies begin to fail? Lessons from a Czechoslovak/UK productivity comparison, 1921-1991 pp. 37-52
Stephen Broadberry and Alexander Klein
The utility of a common coinage: Currency unions and the integration of money markets in late Medieval Central Europe pp. 53-65
Lars Boerner and Oliver Volckart
Fixed-rent contracts and investment incentives. A comparative analysis of English tenant right pp. 66-82
Samuel Garrido
Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800 pp. 83-96
Carlos Santiago-Caballero
Bennet Woodcroft and the value of English patents, 1617-1841 pp. 97-115
Alessandro Nuvolari and Valentina Tartari
The organization of Eastern merchant empires pp. 116-135
Claudia Rei
Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880-1940: Maximizing revenue or minimizing effort? pp. 136-149
Ewout Frankema