Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 58, issue C, 2015

Urbanization without growth in historical perspective pp. 1-21

Remi Jedwab and Dietrich Vollrath

Childhood health and sibling outcomes: Nurture Reinforcing nature during the 1918 influenza pandemic pp. 22-43

John Parman

Intergenerational mobility and institutional change in 20th century China pp. 44-73

Yuyu Chen, Suresh Naidu, Tinghua Yu and Noam Yuchtman

Variations in the price and quality of English grain, 1750–1914: Quantitative evidence and empirical implications pp. 74-92

Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon

Belgium relief fund, post war food shortages and the “True” cost of living pp. 93-106

Adrian R. Fleissig and Gerald A. Whitney

Measuring the military decline of the Western Islamic World: Evidence from Barbary ransoms pp. 107-124

Eric Chaney

Cooperation, defection and resistance in Nazi Germany pp. 125-139

Wayne Geerling, Gary Magee and Robert Brooks

Volume 57, issue C, 2015

Early globalizations: The integration of Asia in the world economy, 1800–1938 pp. 1-18

David Chilosi and Giovanni Federico

The measurement of production movements: Lessons from the general engineering industry in Italy, 1861–1913 pp. 19-37

Stefano Fenoaltea

Output growth in German manufacturing, 1907–1936. A reinterpretation of time-series evidence pp. 38-49

Joost Veenstra

Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690–1871 pp. 50-58

Liam Brunt

School quality and educational attainment: Japanese American internment as a natural experiment pp. 59-78

Martin Saavedra

The economics of aesthetics and record prices for art since 1701 pp. 79-94

Christophe Spaenjers, William Goetzmann and Elena Mamonova

Volume 56, issue C, 2015

Intermarriage in a divided society: Ireland a century ago pp. 1-14

Alan Fernihough, Cormac Ó Gráda and Brendan M. Walsh

Protecting infant industries: Canadian manufacturing and the national policy, 1870–1913 pp. 15-31

Richard Harris, Ian Keay and Frank Lewis

Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium) pp. 32-52

Nick Deschacht and Anne Winter

The changing relationship between inflation and the economic cycle in Italy: 1861–2012 pp. 53-70

Alberto Baffigi, Maria Bontempi, Emanuele Felice and Roberto Golinelli

Easterlin revisited: Relative income and the baby boom pp. 71-85

Matthew J. Hill

Volume 55, issue C, 2015

Surnames: A new source for the history of social mobility pp. 3-24

Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao and Daniel Diaz Vidal

A tale of two Fascisms: Labour productivity growth and competition policy in Italy, 1911–1951 pp. 25-38

Claire Giordano and Ferdinando Giugliano

Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries pp. 39-57

Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

India and the great divergence: An Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871 pp. 58-75

Stephen Broadberry, Johann Custodis and Bishnupriya Gupta

Immigration quotas, World War I, and emigrant flows from the United States in the early 20th century pp. 76-96

Michael J. Greenwood and Zachary Ward

Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s pp. 97-121

Christopher Colvin, Abe de Jong and Philip Fliers

Volume 54, issue C, 2014

The shaping of an institutional choice: Weather shocks, the Great Leap Famine, and agricultural decollectivization in China pp. 1-26

Ying Bai and James Kung

Housing and the cost of living in early modern Toledo pp. 27-47

Mauricio Drelichman and David González Agudo

Patenting in England, Scotland and Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1852 pp. 48-63

Sean Bottomley

Hard times in the land of plenty: The effect on income and disability later in life for people born during the great depression pp. 64-78

Melissa A. Thomasson and Price Fishback

Latifundia revisited: Market power, land inequality and agricultural efficiency. Evidence from interwar Italian agriculture pp. 79-106

Pablo Martinelli

Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850 pp. 107-127

Tuan-Hwee Sng

Volume 53, issue C, 2014

Exchange rate adjustment, monetary policy and fiscal stimulus in Japan's escape from the Great Depression pp. 1-18

Masahiko Shibamoto and Masato Shizume

Defying gravity: The Imperial Economic Conference and the reorientation of Canadian trade pp. 19-39

David Jacks

Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America pp. 40-63

Laura Salisbury

Distinctively black names in the American past pp. 64-82

Lisa Cook, Trevon Logan and John Parman

Labour productivity and human capital in the European maritime sector of the eighteenth century pp. 83-100

Jelle van Lottum and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Bank laws, economic growth and early banking in Latin America: 1840–1920 pp. 101-119

Luis Zegarra

Volume 52, issue C, 2014

The first global emerging markets investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880–1913 pp. 1-21

David Chambers and Rui Esteves

Cross-sectional predictability of stock returns, evidence from the 19th century Brussels Stock Exchange (1873–1914) pp. 22-43

Jan Annaert and Lord Mensah

Local liquidity constraints: What place for central bank regional policy? The French experience during the Belle Époque (1880–1913) pp. 44-62

Guillaume Bazot

Papers, please! The effect of birth registration on child labor and education in early 20th century USA pp. 63-92

Sonja Fagernäs

The role of migration in regional wage convergence: Evidence from Sweden 1860–1940 pp. 93-110

Kerstin Enflo, Christer Lundh and Svante Prado

Measuring integration in the English wheat market, 1770–1820: New methods, new answers pp. 111-130

Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon

Volume 51, issue C, 2014

Tax farming and the origins of state capacity in England and France pp. 1-20

Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama

Inherited vs self-made wealth: Theory & evidence from a rentier society (Paris 1872–1927) pp. 21-40

Thomas Piketty, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Economic growth in the Mid-Atlantic region: Conjectural estimates for 1720 to 1800 pp. 41-59

Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

Regulating IPOs: Evidence from going public in London, 1900–1913 pp. 60-76

Carsten Burhop, David Chambers and Brian Cheffins

From internal taxes to national regulation: Evidence from a French wine tax reform at the turn of the twentieth century pp. 77-93

Raphael Franck, Noel Johnson and John Nye

The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England pp. 94-108

Ian Gazeley and Nicola Verdon

Volume 50, issue 4, 2013

New deal or no deal in the Cotton South: The effect of the AAA on the agricultural labor structure pp. 466-486

Briggs Depew, Price Fishback and Paul Rhode

Cementing the case for collusion under the National Recovery Administration pp. 487-507

Mark Chicu, Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Does “skin in the game” reduce risk taking? Leverage, liability and the long-run consequences of new deal banking reforms pp. 508-525

Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson

The effects of reconstruction finance corporation assistance on Michigan's banks' survival in the 1930s pp. 526-547

Charles Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason, Marc Weidenmier and Katherine Bobroff

The New Deal and the origins of the modern American real estate loan contract pp. 548-566

Jonathan D. Rose and Kenneth Snowden

The effects of the Works Progress Administration's anti-malaria programs in Georgia 1932–1947 pp. 567-581

Carl Kitchens

The effect of institutional regime change within the new deal on industrial output and labor markets pp. 582-598

Jason E. Taylor and Todd C. Neumann

Why did the electorate swing between parties during the Great Depression? pp. 599-619

Robert Fleck

Did the New Deal solidify the 1932 Democratic realignment? pp. 620-633

Shawn Kantor, Price Fishback and John Joseph Wallis

Volume 50, issue 3, 2013

The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England pp. 335-350

Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis

Taking technology to task: The skill content of technological change in early twentieth century United States pp. 351-367

Rowena Gray

Real estate prices in Beijing, 1644 to 1840 pp. 368-386

Daniel Raff, Susan Wachter and Se Yan

The internal impact of a customs union; Baden and the Zollverein pp. 387-404

Florian Ploeckl

Men, women, and the ballot: Gender imbalances and suffrage extensions in the United States pp. 405-426

Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

The French Great Depression: A business cycle accounting analysis pp. 427-445

Slim Bridji

Silver fetters? The rise and fall of the Chinese price level 1928–34 pp. 446-462

Tai-kuang Ho and Cheng-chung Lai

Volume 50, issue 2, 2013

Does the structure of banking markets affect economic growth? Evidence from U.S. state banking markets pp. 161-178

Kris James Mitchener and David Wheelock

Human development in Africa: A long-run perspective pp. 179-204

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Discount rate policy under the Classical Gold Standard: Core versus periphery (1870s–1914) pp. 205-226

Matthias Morys

On the human capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish Conquest. Was there a “Pre-Colonial Legacy”? pp. 227-241

Dácil Juif and Joerg Baten

Under which conditions does religion affect educational outcomes? pp. 242-266

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Volker Grossmann, Ulrich Woitek and Gabriela Wüthrich

Inequality and school funding in the rural United States, 1890 pp. 267-284

Dietrich Vollrath

Women, wealth and economic change: An assessment of the impact of women's property law in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1872–1927 pp. 285-307

Livio Di Matteo

Virtual prices and the impact of house rationing in Belgium on consumer choices pp. 308-315

Adrian R. Fleissig and Gerald Whitney

“Rubber will not keep in this country”: Failed development in Benin, 1897–1921 pp. 316-333

James Fenske

Volume 50, issue 1, 2013

1381 and the Malthus delusion pp. 4-15

Gregory Clark

When did Britain industrialise? The sectoral distribution of the labour force and labour productivity in Britain, 1381–1851 pp. 16-27

Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M.S. Campbell and Bas van Leeuwen

The determinants of local population growth: A study of Oxfordshire in the nineteenth century pp. 28-45

Mark Casson

Europe's many integrations: Geography and grain markets, 1620–1913 pp. 46-68

David Chilosi, Tommy Murphy, Roman Studer and Ali Coskun Tuncer

Retail development in the consumer revolution: The Netherlands, c. 1670–c. 1815 pp. 69-87

Danielle van den Heuvel and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Globalization revisited: Market integration and the wheat trade between North America and Britain from the eighteenth century pp. 88-98

Paul Sharp and Jacob Weisdorf

Real wages and the family: Adjusting real wages to changing demography in pre-modern England pp. 99-115

Eric Schneider

Soviet power plus electrification: What is the long-run legacy of communism? pp. 116-147

Wendy Carlin, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright

Beyond black and white: Color and mortality in post-reconstruction era North Carolina pp. 148-159

Tiffany L. Green and Tod G. Hamilton