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Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 95, issue C, 2025

Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization Downloads
Guido Alfani, Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff
Incredible commitment: Influence accumulation, consensus-making, and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Downloads
Mikołaj Malinowski
Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South Downloads
Alexander N. Taylor
Who collaborates with the Soviets? Financial distress and technology transfer during the Great Depression Downloads
Jerry Jiang and Jacob P. Weber
Agglomeration and creativity in early modern Britain Downloads
Gary W. Cox and Valentin Figueroa
The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution Downloads
Todd Guilfoos
Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Downloads
Guido Alfani and Sergio Sardone
Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland Downloads
Alan Fernihough and Stuart Henderson

Volume 94, issue C, 2024

Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century Downloads
Stefan Nikolić, Filip Novokmet and Piotr Paweł Larysz
European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–2000 Downloads
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 Downloads
Michel Oris, Stanislao Mazzoni and Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain Downloads
Iiro Tiihonen, Leo Lahti and Mikko Tolonen
Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Downloads
Shuo Chen and Bin Xie
Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the Progressive Era Downloads
Marco del Angel, Gary Richardson and Michael Gou
Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018 Downloads
Neil Cummins
Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war Downloads
Jordi Domènech, Ilona Lahdelma and Pablo Martinelli
Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China? Downloads
Mingxi Li
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony Downloads
Jeanne Cilliers, Martine Mariotti and Igor Martins
Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia Downloads
Nikita Lychakov
Access to kin, economic stress, and late-life mortality in North Orkney, Scotland, 1851–1911 Downloads
Julia A. Jennings
Colonial legacies and wealth inequality in Kenya Downloads
Rebecca Simson
Wealth and history: A reappraisal Downloads
Daniel Waldenström
Skill, race, and wage inequality in British Tanganyika Downloads
Sascha Klocke
(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money Downloads
Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita and Spike Gibbs
Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families Downloads
David E. Andersson, Matti La Mela and Fredrik Tell
Reservoirs of power: The political legacy of dam construction in Franco’s Spain Downloads
Gema Lax-Martinez
The Black–white lifetime earnings gap Downloads
Ezra Karger and Anthony Wray
Are some piece rates better than others? Cross-sectional variation in piece rates at a US cotton factory Downloads
Joyce Burnette
Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia Downloads
Mark Hup
Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world: Weak or strong homeostasis? Downloads
Arnaud Deseau
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914 Downloads
Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis and Klas Rönnbäck

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data Downloads
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 Downloads
Leticia Arroyo Abad and Noel Maurer
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules: Lessons from eminent domain Downloads
Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen
The Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France Downloads
Victor Gay, Paula E. Gobbi and Marc Goñi
Contagion of fear: Panics, money, and the Great Depression Downloads
Fabrizio Almeida Marodin, Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson
How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth Downloads
Branko Milanovic
Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934 Downloads
Gertjan Verdickt and Marc Deloof

Volume 92, issue C, 2024

Inland Bills of Exchange: Private Money Production without Banks+ Downloads
Gary Gorton
Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930 Downloads
Martín Fernandez and Gaspare Tortorici
Unintended consequences: International trade shocks and electoral outcomes during the Second Spanish Republic, 1931–1936 Downloads
Concepción Betrán and Michael Huberman
The political economy of assisted immigration: Australia 1860–1913 Downloads
Timothy Hatton
Moderate opulence: the evolution of wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence Downloads
Diego Castañeda Garza
Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data Downloads
Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder
Wages, labour markets, and living standards in China, 1530–1840 Downloads
Ziang Liu
Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression Downloads
Andrew Chase Holt

Volume 91, issue C, 2024

The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion Downloads
Jeff Chan
Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913 Downloads
Sturla Fjesme, Leslie Hannah and Lyndon Moore
The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world Downloads
Seth Bernard
Confucianism and science Downloads
Baomin Dong and Yu Zhang
The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration Downloads
Nina Boberg-Fazlić, Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp
What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce? Downloads
Paul Rhode
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929–1932 Downloads
Andrew J. Seltzer and Jonathan Wadsworth
De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing Downloads
Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode
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