Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 98, issue C, 2025

Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls?

Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth

The Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain

Gary W. Cox and Valentin Figueroa

Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes

Jonathan Jayes, Jakob Molinder and Kerstin Enflo

Natural disasters, missing pupils: Evidence from colonial Jamaica’s school system

Joel Huesler

Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction

Tommy Bengtsson and Cameron Campbell

Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII

Yutaro Izumi and Sangyoon Park

Teacher shortages, the business cycle, and teacher demand: A long-run perspective

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Strøm

Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950

María Gómez-León and Giacomo Gabbuti

Credibility is not enough: Fiscal monetization and currency depreciation in early-modern Venice

Donato Masciandaro, Davide Romelli and Stefano Ugolini

Breakthroughs in historical record linking using genealogy data: The Census Tree project

Kasey Buckles, Adrian Haws, Joseph Price and Haley E.B. Wilbert

Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries)

Marco Martinez, Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta

Catholicism in early 20th century China: A re-examination

Ningning Ma and Yiling Zhao

Incentives and the economics of freedom: Slave peculium, manumission and paramone in ancient Greece

Laurent Gauthier

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 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 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 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 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 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