Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Declining American economic growth despite ongoing innovation pp. 1-12: Robert J. Gordon
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history pp. 13-26: Joel Mokyr
How was the quantitative easing program of the 1930s Unwound? pp. 27-49: Matthew Jaremski and Gabriel Mathy
On the marital status of U. S. slaves: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana pp. 50-63: Trevon Logan and Jonathan B. Pritchett
Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: Critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917–39 pp. 64-80: Eric Schneider and Kota Ogasawara
Inequality and education in pre-industrial economies: Evidence from Spain pp. 81-101: Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Julio Martinez-Galarraga
Co-authorship in economic history and economics: Are we any different? pp. 102-109: Andrew Seltzer and Daniel Hamermesh

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

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