Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War pp. 411-447: Robert Allen
The First Great Whale Extinction: The End of the Bowhead Whale in the Eastern Arctic pp. 448-477: Robert Allen and Ian Keay
Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938 pp. 478-502: Robert Hart
Mortality and Voyage Length in the Middle Passage Revisited pp. 503-533: Robin Haines, John McDonald and Ralph Shlomowitz

The Slow Assimilation of British Immigrants in Canada: Evidence from Montreal and Toronto, 1901 pp. 315-338: Alan Green and Mary MacKinnon
Destined for Deprivation: Human Capital Formation and Intergenerational Poverty in Nineteenth-Century England pp. 339-365: Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries and Hans-Joachim Voth
Path Dependence and Britain's "Coal Wagon Problem" pp. 366-385: Peter Scott
The Skill and Economic Performance of Mexican Immigrants from 1910 to 1990 pp. 386-409: Zadia Feliciano

Salaries and Career Opportunities in the Banking Industry: Evidence from the Personnel Records of the Union Bank of Australia pp. 195-224: Andrew Seltzer and Kenneth Simons
Income Uncertainty and Consumer Spending during the Great Depression pp. 225-251: David Greasley, Jakob Madsen and Les Oxley
Fiscal Dominance and Money Growth in Italy: The Long Record pp. 252-272: Michele Fratianni and Franco Spinelli
Membership in a Religious Commune: The Shakers, 1850-1870 pp. 273-295: Metin Cosgel and Bradley B. Andrew
Population, Land, Economic Conditions, and the Allocation of New Deal Spending pp. 296-304: Robert Fleck
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending, Yet Again: A Reply to Fleck pp. 305-314: John Wallis

One Kind of Freedom Revisited pp. 1-5: Anthony O'Brien and William G. Shade
One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged) pp. 6-39: Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch
Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy pp. 40-47: Gavin Wright
One Kind of Freedom after 20 Years pp. 48-57: Harold D. Woodman
1KF in the Year of Y2K: Framing Ransom and Sutch pp. 58-63: Peter A. Coclanis
One Kind of Freedom: A Comparative Perspective pp. 64-67: Stanley Engerman
Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View pp. 68-92: William Collins and Robert Margo
The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South pp. 93-122: Price Fishback, Michael Haines and Shawn Kantor
Discouraging Times: The Labor Force Participation of Married Black Women, 1930-1940 pp. 123-146: William A. Sundstrom
Migration and Economic Opportunity in the 1910s: New Evidence on African-American Occupational Mobility in the North pp. 147-165: Thomas Maloney
Economic Progress in the Postbellum South? African-American Incomes in the Mississippi Delta, 1880-1910 pp. 166-180: James Irwin and Anthony O'Brien
Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race: A View from Plantations in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 181-194: Lee Alston and Kyle D. Kauffman

The Political Economy of Interwar Egyptian Cotton Policy pp. 301-325: Tarik M. Yousef
Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility: A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century pp. 326-350: Chris Minns
Heights of Men and Women in 19th-Century Bavaria: Economic, Nutritional, and Disease Influences pp. 351-369: Joerg Baten and John E. Murray
The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity in the Success and Failure of the New Deal's Agricultural and Industrial Programs pp. 370-400: Barbara Alexander and Gary Libecap

Scapegoats or Responsive Entrepreneurs: Canadian Manufacturers, 1907-1990 pp. 217-240: Ian Keay
The Choice of Agrarian Contracts in Early Renaissance Tuscany: Risk Sharing, Moral Hazard, or Capital Market Imperfections? pp. 241-257: Daniel Ackerberg and Maristella Botticini
Economic Opportunity on the Urban Frontier: Wealth and Nativity in Early San Francisco pp. 258-277: Thomas Walker
Could the United States Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade after the Civil War? pp. 278-299: Douglas Irwin

The Advent of the Federal Reserve and the Efficiency of the Payments System: The Collection of Checks, 1915-1930 pp. 121-148: R. Gilbert
Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825-1903: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price pp. 149-173: Mette Ejrnæs and Karl Gunnar Persson
Rowntree Revisited: Poverty in Britain, 1900 pp. 174-188: Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell
The Diffusion of Tractors on the Canadian Prairies: The Threshold Model and the Problem of Uncertainty pp. 189-216: Byron Lew

International Comparisons of Real Product, 1820-1990: An Alternative Data Set pp. 1-41: Leandro Prados de la Escosura
The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete-Contract Approach pp. 42-75: Farley Grubb
The Market for Confederate Cotton Bonds pp. 76-97: Marc D. Weidenmier
British Industrialization, 1815-1860: A Disaggregate Time-Series Perspective pp. 98-119: David Greasley and Les Oxley

Universal Banking in Pre-World War I Germany: Model or Myth? pp. 305-343: Caroline Fohlin
Technological Development and Foreign Patenting: Evidence from 19th-Century Australia pp. 344-359: Gary Magee
The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing pp. 360-386: Sukkoo Kim
Farm Value and Retirement of Farm Owners in Early-Twentieth-Century America pp. 387-408: Chulhee Lee
Risk Structure of Postbellum U.S. Deposit Rates pp. 409-427: Brian C. Gendreau
Financial Crises and Structural Change in English Commercial Bank Assets, 1860-1913 pp. 428-444: Mae Baker and Michael Collins

Suez and Sterling, 1956 pp. 181-203: Adam Klug and Gregor Smith
Cross-Border Unions: Internationals in Canada, 1901-1914 pp. 204-231: Michael Huberman and Denise Young
A Theoretical Basis for 19th-Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported Goods Auction pp. 232-245: Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans and Tomas Nonnenmacher
Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India pp. 246-277: William Collins
An Engine of Growth: Real Bills and Schumpeterian Banking in Antebellum New York pp. 278-302: Howard Bodenhorn

The Industrial Revolution, Political Transition, and the Subsequent Decline in Inequality in 19th-Century Britain pp. 109-127: Moshe Justman and Mark Gradstein
Regional Wage Gaps and the Settlement of the Midwest pp. 128-143: Robert Margo
Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869 pp. 144-179: Jeremy Atack and Peter Rousseau

The Political Economy of Agriculture in France's Fifth Republic pp. 1-29: William Adams
To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel pp. 30-55: Simone A. Wegge
Population Growth and the Dynamics of Canadian Development: A Multivariate Time Series Approach pp. 56-71: Alan Green and Gordon Sparks
State Child Labor Laws and the Decline of Child Labor pp. 72-106: Carolyn Moehling