Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 32, issue 4, 1995

The Gold Standard As a Rule: An Essay in Exploration pp. 423-464

Michael Bordo and Finn Kydland

Productivity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade pp. 465-484

Eltis David and Richardson David

The Exploitation of Little Children: Child Labor and the Family Economy in the Industrial Revolution pp. 485-516

Sara Horrell and Humphries Jane

Strangers' Disease: Determinants of Yellow Fever Mortality during the New Orleans Epidemic of 1853 pp. 517-539

Jonathan Pritchett and Tunali Insan

Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates pp. 540-552

Dora Costa

Volume 32, issue 3, 1995

The Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise: The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1853-1881 pp. 273-301

Ann Carlos and Frank Lewis

Monetary Policy in England 1893-1914: A Structural VAR Analysis pp. 302-326

Olivier Jeanne

Real Wages, Productivity, and Unemployment in Britain and Germany during the 1920's pp. 327-349

Stephen Broadberry and Albrecht Ritschl

Real Domestic Income of Indonesia, 1880-1989: A Comment and an Estimate pp. 350-364

Booth Anne

War Finance and Interest Rate Targeting: Regime Changes in 1914-1918 pp. 365-382

Clemens Kool

Occupational Evidence on the Causes of Immigration to the United States, 1836-1853 pp. 383-408

Cohn Raymond L.

British Bank Conservatism in the Late 19th Century pp. 409-420

Capie Forrest H. and Mills Terence C.

Volume 32, issue 2, 1995

The Evolution of Global Labor Markets since 1830: Background Evidence and Hypotheses pp. 141-196

Jeffrey Williamson

The Impact of a Lender of Last Resort during the Great Depression: The Case of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation pp. 197-216

James Butkiewicz

Human Capital in Religious Communes: Literacy and Selection of Nineteenth Century Shakers pp. 217-235

Murray John E.

What Can Univariate Models Tell Us about Canadian Economic Growth 1870-1985? pp. 236-252

Lewis Evans and Quigley Neil C.

REJOINDER Segmented Trend Models of Canadian Economic Growth pp. 253-261

Kris Inwood and Thanasis Stengos

Balanced versus Compromise Estimates of UK GDP 1870-1913 pp. 262-272

Greasley David and Les Oxley

Volume 32, issue 1, 1995

Time-Saving Technical Change: The Cotton Industry in the English Industrial Revolution pp. 1-27

Tunzelmann G. N. von

Government Spending, Monetary Policies, and Exchange Rate Regime Switches: The Drachma in the Gold Standard Period pp. 28-50

Sophia Lazaretou

The Causes of the Depression in Australia in the 1930's: A General Equilibrium Evaluation pp. 51-81

Mahinda Siriwardana

The Political Economy of Coalition-Formation: The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South pp. 82-108

Shawn Kantor

Antitrust Regulation before the Sherman Act: The Break-up of the Chicago Gas Trust Company pp. 109-136

Werner Troesken

Volume 31, issue 4, 1994

Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s pp. 409-431

Lee Alston, Wayne Grove and David Wheelock

Saving in Settler Economies: Australian and North American Comparisons pp. 432-452

Ian McLean

Establishment Size and Economies of Scale in 19th-Century France pp. 453-478

Pierre Sicsic

Structural Rigidity and the Severity of the German Depression: The AVI and the German Steel Cartels 1925-1932 pp. 479-500

Barbezat Daniel

African-American Migration and Mechanized Cotton Harvesting, 1950-1960 pp. 501-520

Craig Heinicke

Comparative Productivity in British and American Manufacturing during the Nineteenth Century pp. 521-548

Stephen Broadberry

Volume 31, issue 3, 1994

The Cold War Economy: Opportunity Costs, Ideology, and the Politics of Crisis pp. 283-312

Higgs Robert

Bonding and the Agency Problem: Evidence from the Royal African Company, 1672-1691 pp. 313-335

Ann Carlos

Explaining the Decline in Southern per Capita Output after Emancipation pp. 336-356

James Irwin

The Slack Banker Dances: Deposit Insurance and Risk-Taking in the Banking Collapse of the 1920s pp. 357-375

David Wheelock and Subal Kumbhakar

The Liverpool Emigrant Servant Trade and the Transition to Slave Labor in the Chesapeake, 1697-1707: Market Adjustments to War pp. 376-405

Farley Grubb and Stitt Tony

Volume 31, issue 2, 1994

Cane Contracting and Renegotiation: A Fixed Effects Analysis of the Adoption of New Technologies in the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1899-1929 pp. 141-175

Dye Alan

Trends in Real Wages in Britain, 1750-1913 pp. 176-194

Nicholas Crafts and Mills Terence C.

Prices in Interwar Britain pp. 195-209

Ian Gazeley

Real Land Rentals in Early Roman Egypt pp. 210-224

Muth Richard F.

Trends in the Economic Well-Being of South Indians under British Rule: The Anthropometric Evidence pp. 225-260

Brennan Lance, McDonald John and Shlomowitz Ralph

The Economic Decline of the Church in Medieval England pp. 261-280

Clegg Nancy W. and Reed Clyde G.

Volume 31, issue 1, 1994

The Rise of Social Spending, 1880-1930 pp. 1-37

Peter Lindert

A Failed Institutional Transplant: Raiffeisen's Credit Cooperatives in Ireland, 1894-1914 pp. 38-61

Timothy Guinnane

A Predatory Democracy? An Essay on Taxation in Classical Athens pp. 62-90

Carl Hampus Lyttkens

Patronage to Merit and Control of the Federal Government Labor Force pp. 91-119

Johnson Ronald N. and Gary Libecap

The Repeal of the Corn Laws and Irish Emigration pp. 120-138

Kevin O'Rourke

Volume 30, issue 4, 1993

Occupational Differences in the Dispersion of Wages and Working Hours: Labor Market Integration in the United States, 1890-1903 pp. 379-408

Sundstrom William A. and Joshua Rosenbloom

The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results pp. 409-423

Robert Margo

Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records pp. 424-449

Dora Costa

Capital Formation during the Industrial Revolution Revisited: Insurance Valuations and Some New Sectoral Estimates pp. 450-469

Pearson Robin

The Concept of Military Economies of Scale pp. 470-484

Latzko David A.

Child Labor and Exploitation in Turn-of-the-Century Cotton Mills pp. 485-500

Holleran Philip M.

Volume 30, issue 3, 1993

Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus Hypothesis pp. 259-293

Loren Brandt

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Bank Failures under the National Banking System pp. 294-320

Richard Grossman

The Distribution of Wealth in Nineteenth Century Boston: Inequality among Natives and Immigrants, 1860 pp. 321-335

Herscovici Steven

Why Was the Mule Used in Southern Agriculture? Empirical Evidence of Principal-Agent Solutions pp. 336-351

Kauffman Kyle D.

War Finance in the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865 pp. 352-376

Richard Burdekin and Langdana Farrokh K.

Volume 30, issue 2, 1993

Credit Markets and Economic Change in Southeastern France 1630-1788 pp. 129-157

Rosenthal Jean-Laurent

British Railway Cost Functions and Productivity Growth, 1900-1912 pp. 158-181

Dodgson J. S.

State Grain Purchases, Relative Prices, and the Soviet Grain Procurement Crisis pp. 182-194

Gregory Paul R. and Manouchehr Mokhtari

Zooming in on Sauerbeck: Monthly Wholesale Prices in Britain 1845-1890 pp. 195-228

Klovland Jan Tore

Household Labor Supply and Women's Work in Interwar Britain pp. 229-256

Timothy Hatton and Roy Bailey

Volume 30, issue 1, 1993

Accidental and Systematic Change in Population History: Homeostasis in a Stochastic Setting pp. 1-30

Ronald Lee

Balanced Growth and the Geographical Distribution of European Immigrant Arrivals to Canada, 1900-1912 pp. 31-59

Alan Green and David Green

Industrialization and the Earnings Gap: Regional and Sectoral Tests of the Goldin-Sokoloff Hypothesis pp. 60-80

Lee Craig and Field-Hendrey Elizabeth B.

The Height of Conscripts and National Income: Apparent Relations and Misconceptions pp. 81-97

Mandemakers C. A. and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Gold-Point Arbitrage and Uncovered Interest Arbitrage under the 1925-1931 Dollar-Sterling Gold Standard pp. 98-127

Lawrence Officer