Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 47, issue 4, 2010

The effects of political fragmentation on investments: A case study of watermill construction in medieval Ponthieu, France pp. 369-380

Karine van der Beek

Peasant communes and factor markets in late nineteenth-century Russia pp. 381-402

Steven Nafziger

Monitoring, reputation and accountability in issuing banks in mid-nineteenth-century Spain pp. 403-419

Juan Pedro Sánchez-Ballesta and Mercedes Bernal Lloréns

Evading the 'Taint of Usury': The usury prohibition as a barrier to entry pp. 420-442

Mark Koyama

Knowledge, natural resource abundance and economic development: Lessons from New Zealand 1861-1939 pp. 443-459

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Was Malthus right? The relationship between population and real wages in Italian history, 1320 to 1870 pp. 460-475

Bruno Chiarini

Cities, hinterlands and agglomeration shadows: Spatial developments in Finland during 1880-2004 pp. 476-486

Hannu Tervo

Were British cotton entrepreneurs technologically backward? Firm-level evidence on the adoption of ring spinning pp. 487-504

Federico Ciliberto

Fertility decline and the heights of children in Britain, 1886-1938 pp. 505-519

Timothy Hatton and Richard M. Martin

Human capital and economic growth in Spain, 1850-2000 pp. 520-532

Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Joan Rosés

Why they moved -- Emigration from the Swedish countryside to the United States, 1881-1910 pp. 533-551

Jan Bohlin and Anna-Maria Eurenius

Volume 47, issue 3, 2010

Preface pp. 259-259

Richard Steckel and Tim Leunig

Historical perspectives on Asian economic growth and development pp. 260-263

Stephen Broadberry and Pierre van der Eng

The historical roots of India's service-led development: A sectoral analysis of Anglo-Indian productivity differences, 1870-2000 pp. 264-278

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

Taxation and educational development: Evidence from British India pp. 279-293

Latika Chaudhary

The sources of long-term economic growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008 pp. 294-309

Pierre van der Eng

Unity or diversity? On the integration and efficiency of rice markets in Indonesia, c. 1920-2006 pp. 310-324

Daan Marks

Comparative output and labor productivity in manufacturing between China, Japan, Korea and the United States for ca. 1935 - A production-side PPP approach pp. 325-346

Tangjun Yuan, Kyoji Fukao and Harry Wu

Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in the 18-20th centuries: Evidences from real wages, age-heaping, and anthropometrics pp. 347-359

Joerg Baten, Debin Ma, Stephen Morgan and Qing Wang

Explorations' contribution to the 'Asian Century' pp. 360-367

Susan Wolcott

Volume 47, issue 2, 2010

Trade costs in the first wave of globalization pp. 127-141

David Jacks, Christopher Meissner and Dennis Novy

Valuing medieval annuities: Were corrodies underpriced? pp. 142-157

Adrian Bell and Charles Sutcliffe

A global perspective on railway inefficiency and the rise of state ownership, 1880-1912 pp. 158-178

Dan Bogart

Electoral fraud, the rise of Peron and demise of checks and balances in Argentina pp. 179-197

Lee Alston and Andres Gallo

Trends in office rents in the City of London: 1867-1959 pp. 198-212

Steven Devaney

Bills of exchange, interest bans, and impersonal exchange in Islam and Christianity pp. 213-227

Jared Rubin

Was industrialization an escape from the commodity lottery? Evidence from Italy, 1861-1939 pp. 228-243

Giovanni Federico and Michelangelo Vasta

The upswing of regional income inequality in Spain (1860-1930) pp. 244-257

Joan Rosés, Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat

Volume 47, issue 1, 2010

Welfare spending and mortality rates for the elderly before the Social Security era pp. 1-27

Adrian Stoian and Price Fishback

Fighting the forces of gravity - Seapower and maritime trade between the 18th and 20th centuries pp. 28-48

Ahmed Rahman

The rise and fall of the sliding scale, or why wages are no longer indexed to product prices pp. 49-67

Christopher Hanes

"Un-American" or unnecessary? America's rejection of compulsory government health insurance in the Progressive Era pp. 68-81

John Emery

Global trends in numeracy 1820-1949 and its implications for long-term growth pp. 82-99

Dorothee Crayen and Joerg Baten

Incentives and innovation? R&D management in Germany's chemical and electrical engineering industries around 1900 pp. 100-111

Carsten Burhop and Thorsten Lübbers

Did firms cut nominal wages in a deflationary environment?: Micro-level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th century banking industry pp. 112-125

Andrew Seltzer

Volume 46, issue 4, 2009

Roots of growth and productivity change in Dutch shipping industry, 1500-1800 pp. 389-403

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Milja van Tielhof

Top incomes and earnings in Portugal 1936-2005 pp. 404-417

Facundo Alvaredo

Engels' pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the british industrial revolution pp. 418-435

Robert Allen

Inequality and living standards under early communism: Anthropometric evidence from Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966 pp. 436-449

Tomas Cvrcek

Survival in 19th century cities: The larger the city, the smaller your chances pp. 450-463

Louis Cain and Sok Chul Hong

Corporate governance and incentive contracts: Historical evidence from a legal reform pp. 464-481

Christian Bayer and Carsten Burhop

Volume 46, issue 3, 2009

Criminal sentencing in 19th-century Pennsylvania pp. 287-298

Howard Bodenhorn

A theory of the pre-modern British aristocracy pp. 299-313

Douglas Allen

Japan's return to gold: Turning points in the value of the yen during the 1920s pp. 314-323

Richard Grossman and Masami Imai

Market Integration in the Golden Periphery. The Lisbon/London Exchange, 1854-1891 pp. 324-345

Rui Esteves, Jaime Reis and Fabiano Ferramosca

Long-run growth in the OECD: A test of the parallel growth paths hypothesis pp. 346-355

John Landon-Lane and Peter Robertson

The widow's offering: Inheritance, family structure, and the charitable gifts of women pp. 356-367

Leslie McGranahan

Tracking down the business cycle: A dynamic factor model for Germany 1820-1913 pp. 368-387

Samad Sarferaz and Martin Uebele

Volume 46, issue 2, 2009

Health, human capital, and African-American migration before 1910 pp. 169-185

Trevon Logan

Engel versus Baumol: Accounting for structural change using two centuries of U.S. data pp. 186-202

Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan Iscan

Share liquidity, participation, and growth of the Boston market for industrial equities, 1854-1897 pp. 203-219

Peter Rousseau

License to till: The privileges of the Spanish Mesta as a case of second-best institutions pp. 220-240

Mauricio Drelichman

The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860 pp. 241-252

Jonathan Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun

Do universal banks create value? Universal bank affiliation and company performance in Belgium, 1905-1909 pp. 253-265

Wouter Van Overfelt, Jan Annaert, Marc De Ceuster and Marc Deloof

New evidence on the fluctuations in ocean freight rates in the 1850s pp. 266-284

Jan Tore Klovland

Errata to ''The economics of market coordination for the pre-Fed check-clearing system: A peek into the Bloomington (IL) node'' [Explor. Econ. Hist. 45 (2008) 445-461] pp. 285-285

Howard H. Chang, Marina Danilevsky, David Evans and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz

Volume 46, issue 1, 2009

Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions pp. 1-23

Richard Steckel

The first 35 years of Soviet living standards: Secular growth and conjunctural crises in a time of famines pp. 24-52

Stephen G. Wheatcroft

Stature and economic development in South China, 1810-1880 pp. 53-69

Stephen Morgan

Stature growth in industrializing Argentina: The Buenos Aires industrial belt 1916-1950 pp. 70-92

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Measuring misery: Body mass, ageing and gender inequality in Victorian London pp. 93-119

Sara Horrell, David Meredith and Deborah Oxley

Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? pp. 120-131

Jane Humphries and Tim Leunig

Tall and shrinking Muslims, short and growing Europeans: The long-run welfare development of the Middle East, 1850-1980 pp. 132-148

Mojgan Stegl and Joerg Baten

Geography, insolation, and vitamin D in nineteenth century US African-American and white statures pp. 149-159

Scott Alan Carson

Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development--An appreciation and research agenda pp. 160-167

Jeremy Atack, Peter Coclanis and George Grantham