Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 96, issue C, 2025

The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany

Stefan Bauernschuster, Matthias Blum, Erik Hornung and Christoph Koenig

World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records

William J. Collins and Ariell Zimran

The Aftermath of the February Flood of 1825: Social and Demographic Change in the Krummhörn Region, East Frisia

Kai P. Willführ and Josep Sottile Perez

Reassessing the great compression among top earners: The overlooked role of taxation and self-employment

Miguel Artola Blanco and Victor Manuel Gómez-Blanco

The escape from hunger: The impact of food prices on well-being in Sweden, 1813–1967

Tommy Bengtsson and Luciana Quaranta

The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884

Martin Klesment and Kersti Lust

Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–1926

Will Damron

Union wage effects in Sweden: Evidence from the interwar period

William Skoglund

Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history

James J Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz and Joseph Price

Balancing economic stress: The role of rural–urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium

George C. Alter and Michel Oris

Volume 95, issue C, 2025

Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization

Guido Alfani, Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff

Incredible commitment: Influence accumulation, consensus-making, and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Mikołaj Malinowski

Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South

Alexander N. Taylor

Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression

Jerry Jiang and Jacob P. Weber

Agglomeration and creativity in early modern Britain

Gary W. Cox and Valentin Figueroa

The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution

Todd Guilfoos

Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

Guido Alfani and Sergio Sardone

Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland

Alan Fernihough and Stuart Henderson

Volume 94, issue C, 2024

Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century

Stefan Nikolić, Filip Novokmet and Piotr Paweł Larysz

European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–2000

Stephen Broadberry and Jason Lennard

Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain

Michel Oris, Stanislao Mazzoni and Diego Ramiro-Fariñas

Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain

Iiro Tiihonen, Leo Lahti and Mikko Tolonen

Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Shuo Chen and Bin Xie

Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Marco del Angel, Gary Richardson and Michael Gou

Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018

Neil Cummins

Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war

Jordi Domènech, Ilona Lahdelma and Pablo Martinelli

Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China?

Mingxi Li

Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony

Jeanne Cilliers, Martine Mariotti and Igor Martins

Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia

Nikita Lychakov

Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1911

Julia A. Jennings

Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya

Rebecca Simson

Wealth and history: A reappraisal

Daniel Waldenström

Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika

Sascha Klocke

(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money

Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita and Spike Gibbs

Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families

David E. Andersson, Matti La Mela and Fredrik Tell

Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain

Gema Lax-Martinez

The Black–white lifetime earnings gap

Ezra Karger and Anthony Wray

Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory

Joyce Burnette

Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia

Mark Hup

Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis?

Arnaud Deseau

Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914

Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis and Klas Rönnbäck

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data

Sam Il Myoung Hwang and Munir Squires

Does time heal all wounds? The rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Noel Maurer

Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain

Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France

Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi and Marc Goñi

Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression

Fabrizio Almeida Marodin, Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson

How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth

Branko Milanovic

Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934

Gertjan Verdickt and Marc Deloof

Volume 92, issue C, 2024

Inland Bills of Exchange: Private Money Production without Banks+

Gary Gorton

Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930

Martín Fernandez and Gaspare Tortorici

Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–1936

Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman

The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913

Timothy Hatton

Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence

Diego Castañeda Garza

Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data

Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder

Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840

Ziang Liu

Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression

Andrew Chase Holt