Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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 Amore

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

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

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

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

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

What we can learn from the early history of sovereign debt pp. 1-16: David Stasavage
On the use of palynological data in economic history: New methods and an application to agricultural output in Central Europe, 0–2000AD pp. 17-39: Adam Izdebski, Grzegorz Koloch, Tymon Słoczyński and Marta Tycner
How Japan remained on the Gold Standard despite unsustainable external debt pp. 40-54: Giovanni B. Pittaluga and Elena Seghezza
Prison crowding, recidivism, and early release in early Rhode Island pp. 55-74: Howard Bodenhorn
Taking the lord's name in vain: The impact of connected directors on 19th century British banks pp. 75-93: Richard Grossman and Masami Imai
Skill choice and skill complementarity in eighteenth century England pp. 94-113: Naomi Feldman and Karine van der Beek
The mortality consequences of distinctively black names pp. 114-125: Lisa D. Cook, Trevon Logan and John Parman