Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2022

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Volume 68, issue C, 2018

A general equilibrium analysis of Canada’s national policy pp. 1-15

Patrick Alexander and Ian Keay

Did monetary policy matter? Narrative evidence from the classical gold standard pp. 16-36

Jason Lennard

The “Hierarchy of Institutions” reconsidered: Monetary policy and its effect on the rule of law in interwar Poland pp. 37-70

Christopher Hartwell

In the eye of a Storm: Manhattan's money center banks during the international financial crisis of 1931 pp. 71-94

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn

Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement pp. 95-118

Brantly Callaway and William Collins

The economic origins of the postwar southern elite pp. 119-131

Brandon Dupont and Joshua Rosenbloom

Prenuptial agreements and matrimonial property regimes in France, 1855–2010 pp. 132-142

Nicolas Frémeaux and Marion Leturcq

Volume 67, issue C, 2018

Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism pp. 1-17

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Nation building: The role of central spending in education pp. 18-39

Francesco Cinnirella and Ruth Schueler

Does industrialization affect segregation? Evidence from nineteenth-century Cairo pp. 40-61

Christophe Lévêque and Mohamed Saleh

The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway pp. 62-79

Jørgen Modalsli

The gun-slave hypothesis and the 18th century British slave trade pp. 80-104

Warren Whatley

Human capital and earnings in eighteenth-century Castile pp. 105-133

Begoña Álvarez and Fernando Ramos-Palencia

Playing yo-yo with bank competition: New evidence from 1890 to 2014 pp. 134-151

Riccardo De Bonis, Giuseppe Marinelli and Francesco Vercelli

‘Tall and lithe’–The wage-height premium in the Victorian and Edwardian British railway industry pp. 152-162

Peter Anderson

Volume 65, issue C, 2017

Clean slate: Land-use changes in San Francisco after the 1906 disaster pp. 1-16

James Siodla

Measuring the extent and implications of corporate political connections in prewar Japan pp. 17-35

Tetsuji Okazaki and Michiru Sawada

Protecting the borrower: An experiment in colonial India pp. 36-54

Latika Chaudhary and Anand V. Swamy

Monopsony and competition: The impact of rival leagues on player salaries during the early days of baseball pp. 55-67

John Bradbury

Usury laws and private credit in Lima, Peru. Evidence from notarized records pp. 68-93

Luis Zegarra

The boll weevil plague and its effect on the southern agricultural sector, 1889–1929 pp. 94-105

Philipp Ager, Markus Brueckner and Benedikt Herz

Social capital and family control pp. 106-114

Mario Daniele Amore

Volume 64, issue C, 2017

States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints pp. 1-20

Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama

Prizes, patents and the search for longitude pp. 21-36

M. Diane Burton and Tom Nicholas

Birds of passage: Return migration, self-selection and immigration quotas pp. 37-52

Zachary Ward

Ownership and the price of residential electricity: Evidence from the United States, 1935–1940 pp. 53-61

Carl Kitchens and Taylor Jaworski

Early-life disease exposure and occupational status: The impact of yellow fever during the 19th century pp. 62-81

Martin Saavedra

Land reform and peasant revolution. Evidence from 1930s Spain pp. 82-103

Jordi Domenech and Francisco Herreros

Returns to school resources in the Jim Crow South pp. 104-110

Celeste Carruthers and Marianne H. Wanamaker

Social mobility in the early middle ages pp. 111-120

Nicholas Meinzer

Volume 63, issue C, 2017

Social-economic change and its impact on violence: Homicide history of Qing China pp. 8-25

Zhiwu Chen, Kaixiang Peng and Lijun Zhu

China's domestic trade during the Treaty-Port Era pp. 26-43

Wolfgang Keller, Javier Andres Santiago and Carol Shiue

Friends from afar: The Taiping Rebellion, cultural proximity and primary schooling in the Lower Yangzi, 1850–1949 pp. 44-69

Yu Hao and Melanie Meng Xue

Teaching to the tests: An economic analysis of traditional and modern education in late imperial and republican China pp. 70-90

Noam Yuchtman

Moving to the right place at the right time: Economic effects on migrants of the Manchuria Plague of 1910–11 pp. 91-106

Dan Li and Nan Li

Volume 62, issue C, 2016

Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation pp. 1-25

Sascha Becker, Steven Pfaff and Jared Rubin

Inflation expectations and recovery in spring 1933 pp. 26-50

Andrew J. Jalil and Gisela Rua

Lead exposure and violent crime in the early twentieth century pp. 51-86

James Feigenbaum and Christopher Muller

International shocks and the balance sheet of the Bank of France under the classical gold standard pp. 87-107

Guillaume Bazot, Michael D. Bordo and Eric Monnet

The value of corporate boards during the Great Depression in Belgium pp. 108-123

Marc Deloof and Veronique Vermoesen

Occupations after WWII: The legacy of Rosie the Riveter pp. 124-142

Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia

Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800 pp. 143-153

Guido Alfani and Wouter Ryckbosch

Volume 61, issue C, 2016

Estimation of historical inflation expectations pp. 1-31

Carola Binder

Socioeconomic status and judicial disparities in England and Wales, 1870–1910 pp. 32-53

Chris Vickers

Recovery Spring, Faltering Fall: March to November 1933 pp. 54-67

Jason E. Taylor and Todd C. Neumann

How Rome enabled impersonal markets pp. 68-84

Benito Arruñada

Deskilling and decline in skill premium during the age of sail: Swedish and Finnish seamen, 1751–1913 pp. 85-94

Jari Ojala, Jaakko Pehkonen and Jari Eloranta

Trading of shares in the Societates Publicanorum? pp. 95-118

Geoffrey Poitras and Manuela Geranio

Selection and historical height data: Evidence from the 1892 Boas sample of the Cherokee Nation pp. 119-123

Melinda Miller

Volume 60, issue C, 2016

Economic growth in the Roman Mediterranean world: An early good-bye to Malthus? pp. 1-20

Paul Erdkamp

Immigration quotas and immigrant selection pp. 21-40

Catherine G. Massey

Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle pp. 41-51

Mauro Rota

Impact of natural disasters on industrial agglomeration: The case of the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923 pp. 52-68

Asuka Imaizumi, Kaori Ito and Tetsuji Okazaki

Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria pp. 69-92

Vellore Arthi and James Fenske

On the divergence between fuel and service prices: The importance of technological change and diffusion in an American frontier economy pp. 93-111

Nicholas Muller