Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Volume 48, issue 4, 2011

Socioeconomic status in childhood and health after age 70: A new longitudinal analysis for the U.S., 1895–2005 pp. 445-460

Joseph Ferrie and Karen Rolf

Female salaries and careers in British banking, 1915–41 pp. 461-477

Andrew Seltzer

Danger on the exchange: How counterparty risk was managed on the Paris exchange in the nineteenth century pp. 478-493

Angelo Riva and Eugene White

A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries pp. 494-506

Branko Milanovic

Inventing social capital: Evidence from African American inventors, 1843–1930 pp. 507-518

Lisa Cook

Conflict and compromise: Changes in U.S. strike outcomes, 1880 to 1945 pp. 519-537

Thomas M. Geraghty and Thomas Wiseman

Trends and cycles in regional economic growth pp. 538-555

Martin Henning, Kerstin Enflo and Fredrik Andersson

Government decisions before and during the First World War and the living standards in Germany during a drastic natural experiment pp. 556-567

Matthias Blum

Commercialization as exogenous shocks: The effect of the soybean trade and migration in Manchurian villages, 1895–1934 pp. 568-589

James Kung and Nan Li

Measuring living standards from the lowest: Height of the male Hangryu deceased in colonial Korea pp. 590-599

Duol Kim and Heejin Park

Monetization and growth in colonial New England, 1703–1749 pp. 600-613

Peter Rousseau and Caleb Stroup

Volume 48, issue 3, 2011

Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction pp. 343-356

Tommy Bengtsson and Frans van Poppel

Long-term changes in social mortality differentials, Geneva, 1625-2004 pp. 357-365

Reto Schumacher and Michel Oris

Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866-1925 pp. 366-375

M. Breschi, A. Fornasin, M. Manfredini, S. Mazzoni and L. Pozzi

Wealth and health in 19th Century Sweden. A study of social differences in adult mortality in the Sundsvall region pp. 376-388

Sören Edvinsson and Marie Lindkvist

The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials: A micro-level study of adult mortality in southern Sweden 1815-1968 pp. 389-400

Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe

Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850-2004 pp. 401-417

Niels Schenk and Frans van Poppel

Inequality and infant and childhood mortality in the United States in the twentieth century pp. 418-428

Michael R. Haines

Once were farmers: Occupation, social mobility, and mortality during industrialization in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec 1840-1971 pp. 429-440

Alain Gagnon, Marc Tremblay, Hélène Vézina and Jamie A. Seabrook

Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: A postscript pp. 441-443

Michael R. Haines and Joseph P. Ferrie

Volume 48, issue 2, 2011

Agricultural institutions, industrialization and growth: The case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870-1940 pp. 151-168

Jorge Álvarez, Ennio Bilancini, Simone D'Alessandro and Gabriel Porcile

Labour market response to globalisation: Spain, 1880-1913 pp. 169-188

Concha Betrán and Maria A. Pons

The life cycle of a metropolitan business network: Liverpool 1750-1810 pp. 189-206

John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty

The health cost of living in a city: The case of France at the end of the 19th century pp. 207-225

Lionel Kesztenbaum and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

National and international market integration in the 19th century: Evidence from comovement pp. 226-242

Martin Uebele

The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective pp. 243-271

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Miren Lafourcade, Jacques Thisse and Jean-Claude Toutain

The origins of Japanese technological modernization pp. 272-291

Tom Nicholas

The Western European marriage pattern and economic development pp. 292-309

James Foreman-Peck

Technological diffusion and the Union blockade pp. 310-324

Bruce W. Hetherington and Peter J. Kower

Airborne diseases: Tuberculosis in the Union Army pp. 325-342

Javier Birchenall

Volume 48, issue 1, 2011

Serial defaults, serial profits: Returns to sovereign lending in Habsburg Spain, 1566-1600 pp. 1-19

Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth

Globalization, industrialization and urbanization in Pre-World War II Southeast Asia pp. 20-36

Gregg Huff and Luis Angeles

When and why did eastern European economies begin to fail? Lessons from a Czechoslovak/UK productivity comparison, 1921-1991 pp. 37-52

Stephen Broadberry and Alexander Klein

The utility of a common coinage: Currency unions and the integration of money markets in late Medieval Central Europe pp. 53-65

Lars Boerner and Oliver Volckart

Fixed-rent contracts and investment incentives. A comparative analysis of English tenant right pp. 66-82

Samuel Garrido

Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800 pp. 83-96

Carlos Santiago-Caballero

Bennet Woodcroft and the value of English patents, 1617-1841 pp. 97-115

Alessandro Nuvolari and Valentina Tartari

The organization of Eastern merchant empires pp. 116-135

Claudia Rei

Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880-1940: Maximizing revenue or minimizing effort? pp. 136-149

Ewout Frankema