Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Did military service during World War I affect the economic status of American veterans?: Hui Ren Tan
Marriage strategy among the European nobility: Stefania Marcassa, Jerome Pouyet and Thomas Tregouet
Inflation expectations and the recovery from the Great Depression in Germany: Volker Daniel and Lucas ter Steege
Roman technological progress in comparative context: The Roman Empire, Medieval Europe and Imperial China: Taco Terpstra
A machine learning approach to improving occupational income scores: Martin Saavedra and Tate Twinam
Did the communists contribute to China’s rural growth?: Yi Lu, Mengna Luan and Tuan-Hwee Sng

Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration: Italy, 1881–1912: Rowena Gray, Gaia Narciso and Gaspare Tortorici
Were capital flows the culprit in the Weimar economic crisis?: Tai-kuang Ho and Kuo-chun Yeh
Social Networks in Economic History: Opportunities and Challenges: Rui Esteves and Gabriel Geisler Mesevage
Changes in the demographics of American inventors, 1870–1940: Sarada Sarada, Michael Andrews and Nicolas Ziebarth
Railroads and Rural Industrialization: evidence from a Historical Policy Experiment: Thor Berger
The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States: William Collins and Ariell Zimran

Labor income inequality in pre-industrial Mediterranean Spain: The city of Murcia in the 18th century pp. -: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado, W. Daniel Giraldo-Paez and Chris Vickers
The making of a liberal education: Political economy of the Austrian school reform, 1865 – 1880 pp. -: Tomas Cvrcek and Miroslav Zajicek
Diasporas, diversity, and economic activity: Evidence from 18th-century Berlin pp. -: Erik Hornung
Expropriation of church wealth and political conflict in 19th century Colombia pp. -: Mateo Uribe-Castro
Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India pp. -: Prashant Bharadwaj and Rinchan Ali Mirza
Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280–1860 pp. -: Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries

Japan and the great divergence, 730–1874 pp. 1-22: Jean-Pascal Bassino, Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Bishnupriya Gupta and Masanori Takashima
Russian real wages before and after 1917 pp. 23-37: Robert Allen and Ekaterina Khaustova
Budget deficits and money creation: Exploring their relation before Bretton Woods pp. 38-56: Marcela Sabate, Carmen Fillat-Castejon and Regina Escario
Missed opportunities? Human welfare in Western Europe and the United States, 1913–1950 pp. 57-73: Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán
Seigniorage in the Civil War South pp. 74-92: Bryan P. Cutsinger and Joshua S. Ingber
Finding the fat: The relative impact of budget fluctuations on African-American schools pp. 93-113: Richard B. Baker
Occupational income scores and immigrant assimilation. Evidence from the Canadian census pp. 114-122: Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield

Canal carriers and creative destruction in English transport pp. 1-24: Dan Bogart, Michael Lefors and A.E.M. Satchell
Effects of New Deal Spending and the downturns of the 1930s on private labor markets in 1939/1940 pp. 25-54: Xing Liu and Price Fishback
Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica pp. 55-71: Trevor Burnard, Laura Panza and Jeffrey Williamson
Property Rights, Marriage, and Fertility in the Italian Alps, 1790–1820 pp. 72-92: Marco Casari, Maurizio Lisciandra and Claudio Tagliapietra
Migration, marriage and social mobility: Women in Sweden 1880–1900 pp. 93-111: Martin Dribe, Björn Eriksson and Francesco Scalone
The evolution of ottoman–European market linkages, 1469–1914: Evidence from dynamic factor models pp. 112-134: Zhuo Li, Laura Panza and Yong Song

Tax revenues and the fiscal cost of trade liberalization, 1792–2006 pp. 1-24: Julia Cagé and Lucie Gadenne
Inequality and philanthropy: High-income giving in the United States 1917–2012 pp. 25-41: Nicolas Duquette
Explaining declines in US rural mortality, 1910–1933: The role of county health departments pp. 42-72: Lauren Hoehn-Velasco
Three-generation mobility in the United States, 1850–1940: The role of maternal and paternal grandparents pp. 73-90: Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman and Laura Salisbury
Origins of Europe’s north-south divide: Population changes, real wages and the ‘little divergence’ in early modern Europe pp. 91-131: Mattia Fochesato
Work intensity and worker safety in early twentieth-century coal mining pp. 132-149: William M. Boal
The prelude and global impact of the Great Depression: Evidence from a new macroeconomic dataset pp. 150-163: Thilo Albers