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The Journal of Economic History

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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 Downloads
Faustine Perrin, Tobias Karlsson and Joris Kok
Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution pp. 981-1017 Downloads
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 Downloads
Price Fishback, Jessica LaVoice, Allison Shertzer and Randall Walsh
Drafting the Great Army: The Political Economy of Conscription in Napoleonic France pp. 1057-1100 Downloads
Louis Rouanet and Ennio E. Piano
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748 pp. 1101-1137 Downloads
Meredith Paker, Judy Z. Stephenson and Patrick Wallis
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India pp. 1139-1174 Downloads
Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske
The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach pp. 1175-1220 Downloads
Robert Allen
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review pp. 1221-1252 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Esteban Nicolini
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy – CORRIGENDUM pp. 1266-1266 Downloads
A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda

Volume 83, issue 3, 2023

Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation pp. 645-675 Downloads
Richard Hornbeck
The Glorious Revolution and Access to Parliament pp. 676-708 Downloads
Kara Dimitruk
State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949 pp. 709-746 Downloads
Craig Palsson
Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy pp. 747-785 Downloads
A’Hearn, Brian and Valeria Rueda
Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South pp. 786-832 Downloads
Andreas Ferrara and Patrick Testa
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data pp. 833-873 Downloads
Alessandro Nuvolari, Gaspare Tortorici and Michelangelo Vasta
Plantation Mortgage-Backed Securities: Evidence from Surinam in the Eighteenth Century pp. 874-911 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Sebastian Alvarez

Volume 83, issue 2, 2023

The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492 pp. 319-358 Downloads
Ann Carlos
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act pp. 359-397 Downloads
Jean Lacroix, Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Kim Oosterlinck
The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition pp. 398-430 Downloads
Cihan Artunç
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State pp. 431-463 Downloads
Thor Berger, Per Engzell, Björn Eriksson and Jakob Molinder
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England pp. 464-500 Downloads
Vincent Delabastita and Sebastiaan Maes
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy pp. 501-537 Downloads
Nicola Bianchi and Michela Giorcelli
Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence pp. 538-571 Downloads
Trevon Logan
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 573-611 Downloads
Anonymous
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting pp. 613-631 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Nicolas L. Ziebarth

Volume 83, issue 1, 2023

Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital pp. 1-44 Downloads
Heyu Xiong and Yiling Zhao
Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907 pp. 45-85 Downloads
David Escamilla-Guerrero and Moramay López-Alonso
Financial Failure and Depositor Quality: Evidence from Building and Loan Associations in California pp. 87-130 Downloads
Todd Messer
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain pp. 131-165 Downloads
Michael Aldous, Philip T. Fliers and John Turner
Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany pp. 167-202 Downloads
Christoph Koenig
Landholding Inequality and the Consolidation of Democracy: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century France pp. 203-241 Downloads
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 Downloads
Sean Bottomley
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria pp. 275-308 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Gianandrea Nodari

Volume 82, issue 4, 2022

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu pp. 917-957 Downloads
Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck and Emil Verner
Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants pp. 959-1002 Downloads
Hui Ren Tan
Intergenerational Mobility in a Mid-Atlantic Economy: Canada, 1871–1901 pp. 1003-1029 Downloads
Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield
U.K. Investment Trust Valuation and Investor Behavior, 1880–1929 pp. 1031-1069 Downloads
Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Janette Rutterford and Daniele Tori
Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850 pp. 1071-1107 Downloads
Ulrich Pfister
Residential Exodus from Dublin Circa 1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government pp. 1109-1141 Downloads
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 Downloads
Amanda Gregg and Tamar Matiashvili
Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910 pp. 1183-1221 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
François Lafond, Diana Greenwald and J. Farmer
Why Join the Fed? pp. 765-800 Downloads
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 Downloads
Guillaume Bazot, Eric Monnet and Matthias Morys
Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics pp. 841-873 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Laura Salisbury

Volume 82, issue 2, 2022

An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development pp. 335-367 Downloads
John Joseph Wallis
The Labor-Intensive Path: Wages, Incomes, and the Work Year in Japan, 1610–1890 pp. 368-402 Downloads
Yuzuru Kumon
How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa pp. 403-441 Downloads
Warren Whatley
Asia’s Silver Absorption through the Triangular Settlement System, 1846–1870 pp. 442-479 Downloads
Atsushi Kobayashi
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited pp. 480-515 Downloads
Nathan Sussman
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession pp. 516-555 Downloads
Ann Carlos, Donna Feir and Angela Redish
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations pp. 556-591 Downloads
Anonymous
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting pp. 592-612 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado and Chris Vickers
Against the Grain: Spanish Trade Policy in the Interwar Years pp. 42-86 Downloads
Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman
Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850 pp. 87-125 Downloads
Guido Alfani, Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment pp. 126-174 Downloads
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales pp. 175-210 Downloads
Jonathan Chapman
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879 pp. 211-249 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Gillian Brunet
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