Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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 J. 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 C. 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 V. 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 R. 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 J. Collins, Andreas Ferrara and Price V. Fishback

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

Jason Fletcher and Hamid Noghanibehambari

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 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