Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Digitization and data frames for card index records: Someswar Amujala, Angela Vossmeyer and Sanjiv Das
Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571: Christopher Blomqvist, Kerstin Enflo, Andreas Jakobsson and Kalle Åström
HANA: A handwritten name database for offline handwritten text recognition: Christian Dahl, Torben S.D. Johansen, Emil N. Sørensen and Simon Wittrock
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project: Martha Bailey, Susan H. Leonard, Joseph Price, Evan Roberts, Logan Spector and Mengying Zhang
Digitizing historical balance sheet data: A practitioner’s guide: Sergio Correia and Stephan Luck
Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source: Thilo N.H. Albers and Kalle Kappner
The census place project: A method for geolocating unstructured place names: Enrico Berkes, Ezra Karger and Peter Nencka
Record linkage for character-based surnames: Evidence from chinese exclusion: Hannah M. Postel
Measuring document similarity with weighted averages of word embeddings: Bryan Seegmiller, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Lawrence Schmidt

Globalization and the spread of industrialization in Canada, 1871–1891: Taylor Jaworski and Ian Keay
War, pandemics, and modern economic growth in Europe: Leandro Prados de la Escosura and C. Vladimir Rodríguez-Caballero
Sweet diversity: Colonial goods and the welfare gains from global trade after 1492: Jonathan Hersh and Hans-Joachim Voth
Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence: Sascha Becker, Sharun Mukand and Ivan Yotzov
The mortality risk of being overweight in the twentieth century: Evidence from two cohorts of New Zealand men: Kris Inwood, Les Oxley and Evan Roberts

Political centralization, career incentives, and local economic growth in Edo Japan: Austin M. Mitchell and Weiwen Yin
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016: Robert Calvert Jump and Karsten Kohler
Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913: Ali Coşkun Tunçer and Leonardo Weller
US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration: Ariell Zimran
Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow: Vadim Kufenko, Ekaterina Khaustova and Vincent Geloso

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