CliometricaPub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00269-w
Fraser Summerfield, Livio Di Matteo
{"title":"Influenza pandemics and macroeconomic fluctuations 1871-2016.","authors":"Fraser Summerfield, Livio Di Matteo","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00269-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11698-023-00269-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper documents the short-run macroeconomic impacts of influenza pandemics across 16 countries spanning 1871-2016 using the Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database and the Human Mortality Database. We find pandemic-induced mortality contributed meaningfully to business cycle fluctuations in the post 1870 era. We identify negative causal impacts on the cyclical component of GDP using pandemics to instrument for working-age mortality. The analysis of short-run economic outcomes extends literature dominated by long-run economic growth outcomes and case studies of several specific health shocks such as the Black Death, Spanish Flu or COVID-19. Our findings illustrate that less catastrophic pandemics still have important economic implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":" ","pages":"1-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10225784/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9717486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2023-05-28DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00270-3
Chengjiu Sun, Hongfei Li
{"title":"The Celestial Empire: solar eclipses, political legitimacy, and economic performance in historical China","authors":"Chengjiu Sun, Hongfei Li","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00270-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-023-00270-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47308791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00268-x
B. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
{"title":"An analysis of the occupations of free women in the antebellum USA","authors":"B. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00268-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-023-00268-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48544752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00267-y
Rebeca A. Echávarri, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
{"title":"Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930","authors":"Rebeca A. Echávarri, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00267-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-023-00267-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41323341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00266-z
T. Brenner, Sonja zu Jeddeloh
{"title":"Path dependence in an evolving system: a modeling perspective","authors":"T. Brenner, Sonja zu Jeddeloh","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00266-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-023-00266-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45473257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1007/s11698-023-00264-1
Leonardo Ridolfi
{"title":"Gender inequality in a transition economy: heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640–1850","authors":"Leonardo Ridolfi","doi":"10.1007/s11698-023-00264-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-023-00264-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44641353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2022-12-18DOI: 10.1007/s11698-022-00262-9
Jonas Ljungberg
{"title":"Competitive devaluations in the 1930s: myth or reality?","authors":"Jonas Ljungberg","doi":"10.1007/s11698-022-00262-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-022-00262-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44972227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CliometricaPub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4
I. Gazeley, Ros Holmes, A. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, H. Rufrancos
{"title":"Escaping from hunger before WW1: the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century","authors":"I. Gazeley, Ros Holmes, A. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, H. Rufrancos","doi":"10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-022-00259-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44951,"journal":{"name":"Cliometrica","volume":"17 1","pages":"533 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48439675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}