Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Microcredit in Prefamine Ireland pp. 347-380: Aidan Hollis and Arthur Sweetman
Gold Shocks, Liquidity, and the United States Economy during the National Banking Era pp. 381-404: Ellis Tallman and Jon Moen
Tsarist Russia and the World Wheat Market pp. 405-430: Barry Goodwin and Thomas Grennes
The Contributions of Early Health-Insurance Programs to Mortality Declines in Pre-World War I Europe: Evidence from Fixed-Effects Models pp. 431-446: C. R. Winegarden and John E. Murray

Growth, Distribution, and Demography: Some Lessons from History pp. 241-271: Jeffrey Williamson
Racial Segregation, Working Conditions, and Workers' Health: Evidence from the A. M. Byers Company, 1916-1930 pp. 272-295: Thomas Maloney
Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History: Implications of Alternative Approaches to Data pp. 296-324: Livio Di Matteo
Purely Animal: Pastoral Production and Early Argentine Economic Growth 1825-1865 pp. 325-345: Carlos Newland and Barry Poulson

The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930 pp. 109-139: Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, Again: With and without Nevada pp. 140-170: John Joseph Wallis
Comparing British and American Economic and Industrial Performance 1860-1993: A Time Series Perspective pp. 171-195: David Greasley and Les Oxley
The Risk Environment of Film Making: Warner Bros in the Inter-War Years pp. 196-220: John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny
The Origins of the Eurodollar Market in London: 1955-1963 pp. 221-238: Catherine Schenk

Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland pp. 1-30: Thrainn Eggertsson
Ability and Willingness to Pay in the Age of Pax Britannica, 1890-1914 pp. 31-58: Trish Kelly
Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status Good, England, 1500-1910 pp. 59-82: Gregory Clark
Fiduciariand Firm Liquidity Constraints: The Italian Experience with German-Style Universal Banking pp. 83-107: Caroline Fohlin

Agricultural Marketing and the Possibilities for Industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s pp. 387-410: Robert Allen
Goldsmith-Banking: Mutual Acceptance and Interbanker Clearing in Restoration London pp. 411-432: Stephen Quinn
On the Puzzling Cycle in the Biological Standard of Living: The Case of Antebellum Georgia pp. 433-459: John Komlos and Peter Coclanis
Land, Factor Markets, and Inequality in Rural China: Historical Evidence pp. 460-494: Dwayne Benjamin and Loren Brandt
Trade, Institutions, and Credit pp. 495-521: Karen Clay

Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860 pp. 243-264: Kenneth Sokoloff and Viken Tchakerian
Italy and the Great Depression: An Analysis of the Italian Economy, 1929-1936 pp. 265-294: Fabrizio Mattesini and Beniamino Quintieri
The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-1860 pp. 295-330: Joseph P. Ferrie
New Data on Minting, Seigniorage, and the Money Supply in Spain (Castile), 1597-1643 pp. 331-367: Akira Motomura
Shifts in the Seasonality of Infant Deaths in Nine English Towns during the 19th Century: A Case for Reduced Breast Feeding? pp. 368-386: Paul Huck

Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt pp. 135-154: Robert Allen
Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in the Great Depression: An Analysis of Panel Data pp. 155-173: Bishnupriya Gupta
Crash! Expectational Aspects of the Departures of the United Kingdom and the United States from the Inter-War Gold Standard pp. 174-194: Paul Hallwood, Ronald MacDonald and Ian Marsh
The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry pp. 195-219: Anthony O'Brien
Bank of England vs the IBRD: Did the Nigerian Colony Deserve a Central Bank? pp. 220-241: Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche

Wage Competition between Agriculture and Industry in Mid-Nineteenth Century France pp. 1-26: Thierry Magnac and Gilles Postel-Vinay
Socioeconomic Background, Disease, and Mortality among Union Army Recruits: Implications for Economic and Demographic History pp. 27-55: Chulhee Lee
Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine pp. 56-76: George R. Boyer
Railroads and Property Taxes pp. 77-99: Jac Heckelman and John Joseph Wallis
Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914 pp. 100-132: Alan Taylor

Adjusting to the Gold Rush: Endogenous Bullion Points and the French Balance of Payments 1846-1870 pp. 417-439: Marc Flandreau
Regional Interest Rate Premia in the American Railroad Bond Market from 1876 to 1890 pp. 440-458: Lea V. Carty
Agrarian Cycles in Germany 1339-1670: A Spectral Analysis of Grain Prices and Output in Nuremberg pp. 459-478: Walter Bauernfeind and Ulrich Woitek
"Imaginary" or "Real" Moneys of Account in Medieval Europe? An Econometric Analysis of the Basle Pound, 1365-1429 pp. 479-495: Ernst Weber
The Market for Montreal Apprentices: Contract Length and Information pp. 496-523: Gillian Hamilton
Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in the Midwest in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 524-538: Mary Eschelbach Gregson

Trend Growth in British Industrial Output, 1700-1913: A Reappraisal pp. 277-295: Terence C. Mills and Nicholas Crafts
Wages and Employment in Britain between the Wars: Quarterly Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry pp. 296-318: Ian Gazeley and Patricia Rice
Testing for Occupational Crowding in Eighteenth-Century British Agriculture pp. 319-345: Joyce Burnette
Quits and Layoffs in Early Twentieth Century Labor Markets pp. 346-366: Barton Hamilton and Mary MacKinnon
Big Players and Herding in Asset Markets: The Case of the Russian Ruble pp. 367-383: Roger Koppl and Leland B. Yeager
The Talk of the Town: Human Capital, Information, and the Growth of English Cities, 1861 to 1961 pp. 384-413: Curtis Simon and Clark Nardinelli

Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army pp. 141-168: Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda
Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the Loss pp. 169-194: Frank Lewis
Risky Business? Nonactuarial Pricing Practices and the Financial Viability of Fraternal Sickness Insurers pp. 195-226: John Emery
Possession is Nine Points of the Law: The Political Economy of Early Public Land Disposal pp. 227-249: Mark Kanazawa
An Econometric Model of World Silk Production, 1870-1914 pp. 250-274: Giovanni Federico

What Limits Social Spending? pp. 1-34: Peter Lindert
Immigrants' Relative Rate of Wage Growth in the Late 19th Century pp. 35-64: Christopher Hanes
Institutional Choice Matters: The Poor Law and Implicit Labor Contracts in Victorian Lancashire pp. 65-85: Lynne Kiesling
Human Capital and Direct Investment in Poor Countries pp. 86-106: John R. Hanson
Do Price Wars Facilitate Collusion? A Study of the Bromine Cartel before World War I pp. 107-137: Margaret Levenstein