Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99: Bram van Besouw and Daniel R. Curtis
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933: Eline Poelmans, Jason E. Taylor, Samuel Raisanen and Andrew C. Holt
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland: Enda Hargaden
Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard: Bert S. Kramer and Petros Milionis
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark: Peter Jensen, Maja Uhre Pedersen, Cristina Victoria Radu and Paul Sharp
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 1736: Parashar Kulkarni and Steven Pfaff

Economically relevant human capital or multi-purpose consumption good? Book ownership in pre-modern Württemberg: Sheilagh Ogilvie, Jeremy Edwards and Markus Küpker
Social democracy and the decline of strikes: Jakob Molinder, Tobias Karlsson and Kerstin Enflo
Patterns of specialization and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900: Giacomo Domini
Value creating mergers: British bank consolidation, 1885–1925: Fabio Braggion, Narly Dwarkasing and Lyndon Moore
Unregulated and regulated free banking: Evidence from the case of Switzerland (1826–1907): Nils Herger
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries: Stephen Broadberry and Leigh Gardner

Life after crossing the border: Assimilation during the first Mexican mass migration: David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis: Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson and Louis Putterman
Long-term trends in income inequality: Winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960: Prince Young Aboagye and Jutta Bolt
Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers: Barry Chiswick and RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality: Alessandro Nuvolari, Valentina Tartari and Matteo Tranchero
What explains patenting behaviour during Britain’s Industrial Revolution?: Stephen Billington

When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset: Kate Ekama, Johan Fourie, Hans Heese and Lisa-Cheree Martin
Housing rent dynamics and rent regulation in St. Petersburg (1880–1917): Konstantin Kholodilin, Leonid Limonov and Sofie Waltl
Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire: Timur Natkhov and Natalia Vasilenok
Muslim conquest and institutional formation: Faisal Z. Ahmed
Reconstruction of the Spanish money supply, 1492–1810: Yao Chen, Nuno Palma and Felix Ward
What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910: Werner Troesken, Nicola Tynan and Yuanxiaoyue Artemis Yang

The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach: Vincent Geloso and Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden: Anna Grodecka-Messi, Seán Kenny and Anders Ögren
The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation: William Collins
The Great Depression and the rise of female employment: A new hypothesis: Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia
Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set: Joseph Price, Kasey Buckles, Jacob Van Leeuwen and Isaac Riley

The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938: Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and John Turner
Short-term residential mortgage contracts in American economic history: Jonathan Rose
Schools without a law: Primary education in France from the Revolution to the Guizot Law: Adrien Montalbo
Go active or stay passive: Investment trust, financial innovation and diversification in Belgium's early days: Jan Annaert and Gertjan Verdickt
Decomposing the U.S. Great Depression: How important were loan supply shocks?: Max Breitenlechner, Gabriel P. Mathy and Johann Scharler
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19: Vellore Arthi and John Parman

The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930⁎: D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees and Tianyi Wang
Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d’Anxure, 1730–1895: Guillaume Blanc and Romain Wacziarg
Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy: Cédric Chambru
Recovery from financial crises in peripheral economies, 1870–1913: Peter Bent
Privatization and business groups: Evidence from the Chicago Boys in Chile: Felipe Aldunate, Felipe González, Mounu Prem and Francisco Urzúa I.
Collider bias in economic history research: Eric Schneider

Education and employment following apartheid protests: Johannes Norling
Settlement location shapes the integration of forced migrants: Evidence from post-war Germany⁎: Sebastian Braun and Nadja Dwenger
Quantifying the impact of aid to dependent children: An epidemiological framework⁎: Gregori Galofré Vilà
Fiscal innovation in nondemocratic regimes: Elites and the adoption of the prussian income taxes of the 1890s⁎: Isabela Mares and Didac Queralt
How the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shaped economic activity in the American West: Philipp Ager, Katherine Eriksson, Casper Hansen and Lars Lønstrup
Specification and structure in economic history: Taylor Jaworski

Church building and the economy during Europe’s ‘Age of the Cathedrals’, 700–1500 CE: Eltjo Buringh, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Auke Rijpma and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Internal immigrant mobility in the early 20th century: evidence from Galveston, Texas: Daniel Aaronson, Jonathan Davis and Karl Schulze
Political institutions, resources, and war: Theory and evidence from ancient Rome: Jordan Adamson
Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870–2017 a more socially mobile society than England?: Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh and Mike Pottenger
Debt and taxes: Fiscal strain and US city budgets during the Great Depression: James Siodla
Enterprise form: Theory and history: Timothy Guinnane and Jakob Schneebacher