Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Volume 49, issue 4, 2012

Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s pp. 381-398

Alan Barreca, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

Deadly anchor: Gender bias under Russian colonization of Kazakhstan pp. 399-422

Gani Aldashev and Catherine Guirkinger

The price of Cherokee removal pp. 423-442

Matthew Gregg and David M. Wishart

When did modernization begin? Italy's industrial growth reconsidered in light of new value-added series, 1911–1951 pp. 443-460

Emanuele Felice and Albert Carreras

The role of the media in a bubble pp. 461-481

Gareth Campbell, John Turner and Clive Walker

Inequality of land tenure and revolutionary outcome: An economic analysis of China's land reform of 1946–1952 pp. 482-497

James Kung, Xiaogang Wu and Yuxiao Wu

“The people's will”: Canadians and the 1898 referendum on alcohol prohibition pp. 498-515

Benoit Dostie and Ruth Dupré

Was technological change in the early Industrial Revolution Schumpeterian? Evidence of cotton textile profitability pp. 516-527

Knick Harley

Migration to U.S. frontier cities and job opportunity, 1860–1880 pp. 528-542

James I. Stewart

Monthly GDP estimates for inter-war Britain pp. 543-556

James Mitchell, Solomos Solomou and Martin Weale

Volume 49, issue 3, 2012

Smallpox and Native American mortality: The 1780s epidemic in the Hudson Bay region pp. 277-290

Ann Carlos and Frank Lewis

Legacy, location, and labor: Accounting for racial differences in postbellum cotton production pp. 291-302

Neil Canaday and Matthew Jaremski

The international political economy of early modern copper mercantilism: Rent seeking and copper money in Sweden 1624–1776 pp. 303-315

Rodney Edvinsson

Good schools make good neighbors: Human capital spillovers in early 20th century agriculture pp. 316-334

John Parman

America's settling down: How better jobs and falling immigration led to a rise in marriage, 1880–1930 pp. 335-351

Tomas Cvrcek

Myopia or strategic behavior? Indian regimes and the East India Company in late eighteenth century India pp. 352-366

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

Military service and economic mobility: Evidence from the American civil war pp. 367-379

Chulhee Lee

Volume 49, issue 2, 2012

Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807 pp. 119-130

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen

What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs? pp. 131-148

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

Between conquest and independence: Real wages and demographic change in Spanish America, 1530–1820 pp. 149-166

Leticia Arroyo Abad, Elwyn Davies and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Taste-based discrimination evidence from a shift in ethnic preferences after WWI pp. 167-188

Petra Moser

New Belgian Stock Market Returns: 1832–1914 pp. 189-204

Jan Annaert, Frans Buelens and Marc J.K. De Ceuster

Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity? pp. 205-220

Yvonne Stolz and Joerg Baten

Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China pp. 221-240

Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan

Exports, imports and growth pp. 241-254

Barbara Pistoresi and Alberto Rinaldi

The determinants of industrial location in Spain, 1856–1929 pp. 255-275

Julio Martinez-Galarraga

Volume 49, issue 1, 2012

Technology and the great divergence: Global economic development since 1820 pp. 1-16

Robert Allen

British relative economic decline revisited: The role of competition pp. 17-29

Nicholas Crafts

Resisting the melting pot: The long term impact of maintaining identity for Franco-Americans in New England pp. 30-59

Mary MacKinnon and Daniel Parent

Korea's first industrial revolution, 1911–1940 pp. 60-74

Myung Soo Cha and Nak Nyeon Kim

Myopic rationality in a Mania pp. 75-91

Gareth Campbell

Citation success: Evidence from economic history journal publications pp. 92-104

Gianfranco Di Vaio, Daniel Waldenström and Jacob Weisdorf

The balance-of-payments constraint on economic growth in a long-term perspective: Spain, 1850–2000 pp. 105-117

Oscar Bajo-Rubio