Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Volume 29, issue 4, 1992

The antebellum American tariff: Food exports and manufacturing pp. 375-400

Knick Harley

The "teaching procession"? another look at teacher tenure, 1845-1925 pp. 401-416

Susan B. Carter and Elizabeth Savoca

Alexander Hamilton, conversion, and debt reduction pp. 417-429

Donald F. Swanson and Andrew P. Trout

Rigid wages or small equilibrium adjustments? Evidence from the contraction of 1893 pp. 430-455

William A. Sundstrom

Intergenerational transfers, emigration, and the rural Irish household system pp. 456-476

Timothy Guinnane

The labor market and the distribution of landholdings in pre-Famine Ireland pp. 477-493

Pat McGregor

Volume 29, issue 3, 1992

Money and business cycles in the United States, 1870 to 1913: A reexamination of Friedman and Schwartz pp. 251-273

Forrest H. Capie and Terence C. Mills

Jewish immigrant wages in America in 1909: An analysis of the dillingham commission data pp. 274-289

Barry Chiswick

The role of the international gold standard in commodity price deflation: Evidence from the 1929 stock market crash pp. 290-317

Scott Sumner

Fiscal policy in Germany during the Great Depression pp. 318-342

Raymond L. Cohn

The real domestic product of Indonesia, 1880-1989 pp. 343-373

Pierre van der Eng

Volume 29, issue 2, 1992

Reconsidering Japanese deflation during the 1920s pp. 121-143

Riccardo Faini and Gianni Toniolo

Integration of the European business cycle: 1871-1910 pp. 144-168

Lee Craig and Douglas Fisher

A new look at demographic and technological changes: England, 1550 to 1839 pp. 169-203

Theofanis Tsoulouhas

Property rights and institutional change during Australia's gold rush pp. 204-227

Sumner La Croix

The role of nationality-specific characteristics on the settlement patterns of late nineteenth century immigrants pp. 228-249

James Dunlevy and Richard Saba

Volume 29, issue 1, 1992

Coerced and free labor: Property rights and the development of the labor force pp. 1-29

Stanley L. Engerman

The political economy of the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariff acts pp. 30-50

Marc Hayford and Carl Pasurka

The political economy of the abolition of seigneurial tenure in Canada East pp. 51-68

Michael B. Percy and Rick Szostak

Was the franc poincare deliberately undervalued? pp. 69-92

Pierre Sicsic

More speculation on destabilizing speculation pp. 93-98

Barry Eichengreen

A contract with the Barbarians? Economics and the fall of Rome pp. 99-115

J. L. Anderson and T. Lewit

The theory of Rome pp. 116-117

Gerald Gunderson

Volume 28, issue 4, 1991

Wage gaps between farm and city: Michigan in the 1890s pp. 381-408

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

Rural depopulation in a small open economy: Ireland 1856-1876 pp. 409-432

Kevin O'Rourke

The roots of today's "women's jobs" and "men's jobs": Using the index of dissimilarity to measure occupational segregation by gender pp. 433-459

Nancy E. Bertaux

Changing French trade conditions, national welfare, and the 1860 Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce pp. 460-477

John Nye

Labor productivity and farm size in English agriculture before mechanization: Reply to Clark pp. 478-492

Robert Allen

Volume 28, issue 3, 1991

On the accuracy of foreign trade statistics (1909-1935): Morgenstern revisited pp. 259-273

Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito

Discontinuities in Canadian economic growth, 1870-1985 pp. 274-286

Kris Inwood and Thanasis Stengos

The market for labor in interwar Britain pp. 287-308

Michael Beenstock and Peter Warburton

Public school expenditures in the plantation states, 1910 pp. 309-322

Jim Gerber

Gender differences in learning and earning in nineteenth-century America: The role of expected job and career attachment pp. 323-343

Susan B. Carter and Elizabeth Savoca

Industrialization and occupational mortality in France prior to 1914 pp. 344-366

Wayne Lewchuk

Third world incomes before world war I: Further evidence pp. 367-379

John Hanson

Volume 28, issue 2, 1991

A new theory of guilds and european economic development pp. 127-168

Charles R. Hickson and Earl A. Thompson

Working health time: A comparison of preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial experience in life and health pp. 169-191

James C. Riley

Passenger fares on sailing vessels to Australia in the nineteenth century pp. 192-208

John McDonald and Ralph Shlomowitz

Balance of payments adjustment under the international gold standard: Canada, 1871-1913 pp. 209-238

Trevor J. O. Dick and John Floyd

Chinese immigration: Reply to charles McClain pp. 239-247

Patricia Cloud and David Galenson

Labor productivity and farm size in English agriculture before mechanization: A note pp. 248-257

Gregory Clark

Volume 28, issue 1, 1991

Do legal systems matter? pp. 1-35

Alexander Field

The evolution of agrarian institutions: The case of medieval and Ottoman Serbia pp. 36-53

Michael L. Boyd

Balanced estimates of UK GDP 1870-1913 pp. 54-63

Solomos Solomou and Martin Weale

Jewish immigrant skill and occupational attainment at the turn of the century pp. 64-86

Barry Chiswick

How did labor markets work in lancashire? more evidence on prices and quantities in cotton spinning, 1822-1852 pp. 87-120

Michael Huberman

Was Britain immiserized during the industrial revolution? pp. 121-124

Douglas Irwin