The Journal of Economic History

1941 - 2025

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Volume 83, issue 4, 2023

The Historical Gender Gap Index: A Longitudinal and Spatial Assessment of Sweden, 1870–1990 pp. 943-980

Faustine Perrin, Tobias Karlsson and Joris Kok

Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution pp. 981-1017

Liang Bai and Lingwei Wu

The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s pp. 1019-1056

Price Fishback, Jessica LaVoice, Allison Shertzer and Randall Walsh

Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France pp. 1057-1100

Louis Rouanet and Ennio E. Piano

Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748 pp. 1101-1137

Meredith Paker, Judy Stephenson and Patrick Wallis

Railways, Development, and Literacy in India pp. 1139-1174

Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske

The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach pp. 1175-1220

Robert Allen

The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review pp. 1221-1252

Mark Kanazawa

The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France. By Jerome Greenfield. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 300. £75.00, hardcover pp. 1257-1258

Didac Queralt

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 pp. 1258-1261

Marc Morgan

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870. By Martti Koskenniemi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 1107. $195.00, hardcover; $99.99, paper pp. 1261-1263

Jérome Sgard

How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. By Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. Medford: Polity Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 259. $24.95, paper pp. 1264-1265

Esteban Nicolini

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1266-1266

A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda

Volume 83, issue 3, 2023

Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation pp. 645-675

Richard Hornbeck

The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament pp. 676-708

Kara Dimitruk

State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949 pp. 709-746

Craig Palsson

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy pp. 747-785

A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda

Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South pp. 786-832

Andreas Ferrara and Patrick Testa

British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data pp. 833-873

Alessandro Nuvolari, Gaspare Tortorici and Michelangelo Vasta

Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century pp. 874-911

Abe de Jong, Tim Kooijmans and Peter Koudijs

We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years pp. 912-938

Timothy Guinnane

Navigating Nationalism in Global Enterprise: A Century of Indo-German Business Relations. By Christina Lubinski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. £75.00, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-316-51128-2 pp. 939-940

Sabine Pitteloud

El Nacimiento de la Banca en América Latina: Finanzas y Política en el Siglo XIX. By Carlos Marichal. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2022. Pp. 508, MX$350 pp. 941-942

Sebastian Alvarez

Volume 83, issue 2, 2023

The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492 pp. 319-358

Ann Carlos

Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act pp. 359-397

Jean Lacroix, Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Kim Oosterlinck

The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition pp. 398-430

Cihan Artunç

Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State pp. 431-463

Thor Berger, Per Engzell, Björn Eriksson and Jakob Molinder

The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England pp. 464-500

Vincent Delabastita and Sebastiaan Maes

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy pp. 501-537

Nicola Bianchi and Michela Giorcelli

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence pp. 538-571

Trevon Logan

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 573-611

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting pp. 613-631

Anonymous

The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. v, 453. $45.00, hardcover pp. 641-642

Taylor Jaworski

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. By J. Bradford DeLong. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. 624. $23.96, hardcover pp. 642-644

Nicolas L. Ziebarth

Volume 83, issue 1, 2023

Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital pp. 1-44

Heyu Xiong and Yiling Zhao

Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 pp. 45-85

David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay López-Alonso

Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California pp. 87-130

Todd Messer

Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain pp. 131-165

Michael Aldous, Philip T. Fliers and John Turner

Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany pp. 167-202

Christoph Koenig

Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France pp. 203-241

Adrien Montalbo

Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution: The Case of the English Court of Wards and Liveries, 1540–1660 pp. 242-274

Sean Bottomley

Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria pp. 275-308

Florian Ploeckl

Ibicaba (1817–1927): Entendendo, Vivendo e Construindo Futuros. Bruno Gabriel Witzel and Leonardo Antonio Santin Gardenal (Orgs.). Campinas, SP: Pontes, 2021. Pp. 471; $17.50 pp. 316-316

Aldo Musacchio

An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover pp. 317-318

Gianandrea Nodari

Volume 82, issue 4, 2022

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu pp. 917-957

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner

Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants pp. 959-1002

Hui Ren Tan

Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901 pp. 1003-1029

Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield

U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929 pp. 1031-1069

Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Janette Rutterford and Daniele Tori

Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850 pp. 1071-1107

Ulrich Pfister

Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government pp. 1109-1141

Silvi K. Berger, Franco Mariuzzo and Peter L. Ormosi

Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia pp. 1143-1182

Amanda Gregg and Tamar Matiashvili

Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910 pp. 1183-1221

Sebastian Braun and Richard Franke

Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 354. $18.49, Kindle; $89.99 hardcover; $29.99, paper pp. 1229-1231

Jan Luiten van Zanden

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 pp. 1231-1233

Leonardo Weller

Making Commercial Law Through Practice, 1830–1970. By Ross Cranston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 483. $112.28, hardcover; $32.50, ebook pp. 1233-1235

Jérôme Sgard

Volume 82, issue 3, 2022

The Making of Bad Gentry: The Abolition of Keju, Local Governance, and Anti-Elite Protests, 1902–1911 pp. 625-661

Yu Hao, Zhengcheng Liu, Xi Weng and Li-An Zhou

“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing pp. 663-689

Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode

The Borchardt Hypothesis: A Cliometric Reassessment of Germany’s Debt and Crisis during 1930–1932 pp. 691-726

Tai-kuang Ho, Ya-chi Lin and Kuo-chun Yeh

Can Stimulating Demand Drive Costs Down? World War II as a Natural Experiment pp. 727-764

François Lafond, Diana Greenwald and J. Farmer

Why Join the Fed? pp. 765-800

Charles W. Calomiris and Matthew Jaremski

Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization pp. 801-839

Guillaume Bazot, Eric Monnet and Matthias Morys

Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics pp. 841-873

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

Demographic Shocks and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India pp. 875-912

James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta and Song Yuan

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 pp. 913-914

Zachary Ward

Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. By Claudia Goldin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp v, 325. $27.95, hardcover pp. 915-916

Laura Salisbury

Volume 82, issue 2, 2022

An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development pp. 335-367

John Joseph Wallis

The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890 pp. 368-402

Yuzuru Kumon

How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa pp. 403-441

Warren Whatley

Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870 pp. 442-479

Atsushi Kobayashi

Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited pp. 480-515

Nathan Sussman

Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession pp. 516-555

Ann Carlos, Donna Feir and Angela Redish

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 556-591

Anonymous

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting pp. 592-612

Anonymous

American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D. By Eric S. Hintz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 368. $60.00, paper; $41.99, Kindle pp. 619-621

Michael Andrews

Making Social Spending Work. By Peter H. Lindert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 422. $21.17, hardcover; $18.49, Kindle pp. 622-624

Michael Huberman

Volume 82, issue 1, 2022

La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy pp. 1-41

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado and Chris Vickers

Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years pp. 42-86

Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850 pp. 87-125

Guido Alfani, Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff

Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment pp. 126-174

Jaime Arellano-Bover

Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales pp. 175-210

Jonathan Chapman

The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879 pp. 211-249

Pim de Zwart, Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Auke Rijpma

The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking pp. 250-283

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan Maurer

What Happened to the U.S. Economy during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data pp. 284-326

Francois Velde

World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. By Gregg Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx, 523. $120.00, hardcover pp. 331-332

John Tang

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 pp. 332-334

Gillian Brunet