Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Volume 45, issue 4, 2008

Wage strikes in 1880s America: A test of the war of attrition model pp. 303-326

Thomas M. Geraghty and Thomas Wiseman

Resolving the puzzle of the underissuance of national bank notes pp. 327-355

Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason

Family and sex-specific U.S. immigration from Europe, 1870-1910: A panel data study of rates and composition pp. 356-382

Michael J. Greenwood

Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928-December 1936 pp. 383-401

Nikolaus Wolf

Explaining the spread of residential air conditioning, 1955-1980 pp. 402-423

Jeff Biddle

The negative trade-off between risk and incentives: Evidence from the american whaling industry pp. 424-444

Eric Hilt

The economics of market coordination for the pre-Fed check-clearing system: A peek into the Bloomington (IL) node pp. 445-461

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

Shareholder value mining: Wealth effects of takeovers in German coal mining, 1896-1913 pp. 462-476

Thorsten Lübbers

Paying back to borrow more: Reputation and bank credit access in early America pp. 477-488

Ta-Chen Wang

Volume 45, issue 3, 2008

Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent pp. 209-234

David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey Williamson

The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure pp. 235-253

Graeme G. Acheson and John Turner

The antebellum U.S. iron industry: Domestic production and foreign competition pp. 254-269

Joseph H. Davis and Douglas Irwin

The roles of electricity and ICT in economic growth: Case Finland pp. 270-287

Jukka Jalava and Matti Pohjola

Bimetallism: The "rules of the game" pp. 288-302

Claude Diebolt and Antoine Parent

Volume 45, issue 2, 2008

Did nordic countries recognize the gathering storm of World War II? Evidence from the bond markets pp. 107-126

Daniel Waldenström and Bruno Frey

Agricultural specialization and height in ancient and medieval Europe pp. 127-146

Nikola Koepke and Joerg Baten

GDP per capita or real wages? Making sense of conflicting views on pre-industrial Europe pp. 147-163

Luis Angeles

The Fed's reaction to the stock market during the great depression: Fact or artefact? pp. 164-184

Pierre Siklos

Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing pp. 185-198

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

The postbellum demand for cotton revisited pp. 199-206

Erik D. Craft and James Monks

Volume 45, issue 1, 2008

Water and Chicago's mortality transition, 1850-1925 pp. 1-16

Joseph P. Ferrie and Werner Troesken

The evolution of a national banking market in pre-war Japan pp. 17-29

Richard Grossman and Masami Imai

Mechanical refrigeration, seasonality, and the hog-corn cycle in the United States: 1870-1940 pp. 30-50

Lee Craig and Matthew Holt

The accumulation of property by southern blacks and whites: Individual-level evidence from a South Carolina cotton county, 1910-1919 pp. 51-75

Neil Canaday

From home to hospital: The evolution of childbirth in the United States, 1928-1940 pp. 76-99

Melissa Thomasson and Jaret Treber

Errata to "Gold shocks, liquidity, and the United States Economy during the National Banking Era" [Explor. Econ. Hist. 35 (1998) 381-404] pp. 100-105

Ellis Tallman and Jon Moen