Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 60, issue C, 2016

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

Volume 59, issue C, 2016

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

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