Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

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: G Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn
Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement pp. 95-118: Brantly Callaway VI 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