Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 91, issue C, 2024

The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion

Jeff Chan

Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913

Sturla Fjesme, Leslie Hannah and Lyndon Moore

The premium for skilled labor in the Roman world

Seth Bernard

Confucianism and science

Baomin Dong and Yu Zhang

The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration

Nina Boberg-Fazlić, Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?

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

Andrew Seltzer and Jonathan Wadsworth

De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing

Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode

Volume 90, issue C, 2023

The economic impact of social distancing: Evidence from state-collected data during the 1918 influenza pandemic

Benjamin Bridgman and Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy

Fueling the party machine: Evidence from Greece during Metapolitefsi

Pantelis Kammas, Maria Poulima and Vassilis Sarantides

Women’s educational attainment, marriage, and fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill

Conor Lennon

The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile

María Angélica Bautista, Felipe González, Luis Martinez, Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem

Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide

Brian Beach and W Hanlon

Quantifying racial discrimination in the 1944 G.I. bill

Maya Eden

Stock returns and the Spanish flu, 1918–1920

Marco Del Angel, Caroline Fohlin and Marc D. Weidenmier

Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads

Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, Filippo Tassinari and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

The jobless recovery after the 1980–1981 British recession

Meredith Paker

Politics and eminent domain: Evidence from the 1879 California constitution

Mark Kanazawa

Debt policy in Spanish America during the seventeenth century

Sergio Serrano Hernández

Historical height measurement consistency: Evidence from colonial Trinidad

Alexander Persaud

Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War

Victor Gay and Pauline Grosjean

Land rights in historical Vietnam: Theory and evidence

Hoang-Anh Ho

Volume 89, issue C, 2023

Revisiting the ‘Cobden-Chevalier network’ trade and welfare effects

Jacopo Timini

Ancient nomadic corridors and long-run development in the highlands of Asia

Christopher Paik and Keshar Shahi

Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)

Felix S.F. Schaff

Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony

Igor Martins, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

The forces of path dependence: Haiti's refugee camps, 1937–2009

Craig Palsson

Urban mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur and Hitoshi Shigeoka

Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain

Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech and Laura Maravall

Volume 88, issue C, 2023

Foutu maximum: The political economy of price controls and national defense in revolutionary France

Louis Rouanet

Spoils of War: The Political Legacy of the German hyperinflation

Gregori Galofré-Vilà

Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900

Nuno Palma, Jaime Reis and Lisbeth Rodrigues

The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity

Leonard Kukić

Sweet equality: Sugar, property rights, and land distribution in colonial Java

Pim de Zwart and Phylicia Soekhradj

Exploring 200 years of U.S. commodity market integration: A structural time series model approach

James M. Harrison

Volume 87, issue C, 2023

Digitization and data frames for card index records

Someswar Amujala, Angela Vossmeyer and Sanjiv Das

Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571

Christopher Blomqvist, Kerstin Enflo, Andreas Jakobsson and Kalle Åström

HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition

Christian Dahl, Torben S.D. Johansen, Emil N. Sørensen and Simon Wittrock

Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project

Martha Bailey, Susan H. Leonard, Joseph Price, Evan Roberts, Logan Spector and Mengying Zhang

Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide

Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck

Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source

Thilo N.H. Albers and Kalle Kappner

The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names

Enrico Berkes, Ezra Karger and Peter Nencka

Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion

Hannah M. Postel

Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings

Bryan Seegmiller, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Lawrence Schmidt

Volume 86, issue C, 2022

Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891

Taylor Jaworski and Ian Keay

War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe

Leandro Prados de la Escosura and C. Vladimir Rodríguez-Caballero

Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492

Jonathan Hersh and Hans-Joachim Voth

Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence

Sascha Becker, Sharun Mukand and Ivan Yotzov

The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men

Kris Inwood, Les Oxley and Evan Roberts

Volume 85, issue C, 2022

Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan

Austin M. Mitchell and Weiwen Yin

A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016

Robert Calvert Jump and Karsten Kohler

Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913

Ali Coşkun Tunçer and Leonardo Weller

US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

Ariell Zimran

Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow

Vadim Kufenko, Ekaterina Khaustova and Vincent Geloso