Explorations in Economic History
1969 - 2025
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Volume 69, issue C, 2018
- 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
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 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
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