Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Early evidence of an adverse selection death spiral? The case of Blue Cross and Blue Shield pp. 313-328: Melissa Thomasson
The circulating medium of exchange in colonial Pennsylvania, 1729-1775: new estimates of monetary composition, performance, and economic growth pp. 329-360: Farley Grubb
Male-female earnings differentials in early 20th century Manila pp. 361-376: John E. Murray and Kristen Keith
The micro-economic effects of financial market structure: evidence from 20th century North American steel firms pp. 377-403: Ian Keay and Angela Redish
Regional wage convergence in Spain 1850-1930 pp. 404-425: Joan Rosés and Blanca Sanchez-Alonso
Patterns of historical CO2 intensity transitions among high and low-income countries pp. 426-447: Magnus Lindmark

Efficiency, competition, and the development of life insurance in France (1870-1939): Or: should we trust pension funds? pp. 205-232: Pierre Hautcoeur
Stature decline and recovery in a food-rich export economy: Argentina 1900-1934 pp. 233-255: Ricardo D. Salvatore
Measuring returns to scale in nineteenth-century French industry pp. 256-281: Ulrich Doraszelski
The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany pp. 282-299: Oliver Volckart
The effectiveness of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal cartel during the inter-war period: a research note pp. 300-307: Gil Montant

The allocation of property rights to land: US land policy and farm failure in the northern great plains pp. 103-129: Zeynep K. Hansen and Gary Libecap
Mortality, interest rates, investment, and agricultural production in 18th century England pp. 130-155: Esteban Nicolini
Was 19th century British growth steam-powered?: the climacteric revisited pp. 156-171: Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills
Freight rates and productivity gains in British tramp shipping 1869-1950 pp. 172-203: Saif I. Shah Mohammed and Jeffrey Williamson

Guilds, laws, and markets for manufactured merchandise in late-medieval England pp. 1-25: Gary Richardson
Globalization and real wages in New Zealand 1873-1913 pp. 26-47: David Greasley and Les Oxley
Paying for privilege: the political economy of Bank of England charters, 1694-1844 pp. 48-72: J. Lawrence Broz and Richard Grossman
Family structure, school attendance, and child labor in the American South in 1900 and 1910 pp. 73-100: Carolyn Moehling

Religious prohibitions against usury pp. 347-368: Clyde G. Reed and Cliff T. Bekar
Catching up to the European core: Portuguese economic growth, 1910-1990 pp. 369-386: Pedro Lains
Globalisation versus de-coupling: German emigration and the evolution of the Atlantic labour market 1870-1913 pp. 387-418: Oliver Grant
Slave prices from succession and bankruptcy sales in Mauritius, 1825-1827 pp. 419-442: Shirley Chenny, Pascal St-Amour and Désiré Vencatachellum
Monetary Union, institutions and financial market integration: Italy, 1862-1905 pp. 443-461: Gianni Toniolo, Leandro Conte and Giovanni Vecchi

The property tax as a coordinating device: Financing Indiana's Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835-1842 pp. 223-250: John Joseph Wallis
The New Deal at war: alphabet agencies' expenditure patterns, 1940-1945 pp. 251-277: Fred Bateman and Jason E. Taylor
Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis pp. 278-307: Price Fishback, Shawn Kantor and John Joseph Wallis
Open fields, risk, and land divisibility pp. 308-325: Cliff T. Bekar and Clyde G. Reed
The bond market and the legitimacy of Vichy France pp. 326-344: Kim Oosterlinck

The political economy of Reconstruction Finance Corporation assistance during the Great Depression pp. 101-121: Joseph R. Mason
Paper money but a gold debt: Italy on the gold standard pp. 122-142: Giuseppe Tattara
Aggregate price shocks and financial stability: the United Kingdom 1796-1999 pp. 143-169: Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock
Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures pp. 170-194: Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo
Comment: Rules, monitoring, and incentives in the age of sail pp. 195-211: Daniel Benjamin and Christopher F. Thornberg
Rules and rewards in the age of sail: a reply pp. 212-220: Douglas Allen

Rich and poor before the Industrial Revolution: a comparison between Java and the Netherlands at the beginning of the 19th century pp. 1-23: Jan Luiten van Zanden
The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940-1964 pp. 24-51: William Collins
Factor prices and productivity growth during the British industrial revolution pp. 52-77: Pol Antras and Hans-Joachim Voth
Distribution dynamics: stratification, polarization, and convergence among OECD economies, 1870-1992 pp. 78-97: Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze

Internal versus external convertibility and emerging-market crises: lessons from Argentine history pp. 357-389: Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor
Agricultural labor productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800 pp. 390-424: Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss
Social reformers and regulation: the prohibition of cigarettes in the United States and Canada pp. 425-445: Lee Alston, Ruth Dupre and Tomas Nonnenmacher
Wealth and the demand for life insurance: evidence from Ontario, 1892 pp. 446-469: Livio Di Matteo and John Emery
'The bull is half the herd': property rights and enclosures in England, 1750-1850 pp. 470-489: Elaine Tan

From Sickness to Health: The Twentieth-Century Development of U.S. Health Insurance pp. 233-253: Melissa Thomasson
Selective Immigration and Ethnic Economic Achievement: Japanese Americans before World War II pp. 254-281: Masao Suzuki
Path Dependence in Spatial Networks: The Standardization of Railway Track Gauge pp. 282-314: Douglas J. Puffert
Hope against Hope: Strike Activity in Canada, 1920-1939 pp. 315-354: Michael Huberman and Denise Young

The U.S. Specie Standard, 1792-1932: Some Monetarist Arithmetic pp. 113-153: Lawrence Officer
Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets pp. 154-182: Barry Goodwin, Thomas Grennes and Lee Craig
The Great Compression of the 1940s: The Public versus the Private Sector pp. 183-203: Robert Margo and T. Aldrich Finegan
The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail pp. 204-231: Douglas Allen

Was Expansionary Monetary Policy Feasible during the Great Contraction? An Examination of the Gold Standard Constraint pp. 1-28: Michael Bordo, Ehsan Choudhri and Anna Schwartz
Taxing Emerging Stock Markets: A Beneficial Policy? Evidence from the Stockholm Stock Exchange, 1907-1939 pp. 29-45: Daniel Waldenström
Price Behavior in Ancient Babylon pp. 46-60: Peter Temin
Royal African Company Share Prices during the South Sea Bubble pp. 61-87: Ann Carlos, Nathalie Moyen and Jonathan Hill
Race, Inequality, and Anti-Chinese Violence in the Netherlands Indies pp. 88-112: Siddharth Chandra