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Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage 寻找约翰·史密斯：使用额外的信息为历史记录链接
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2026.101764
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Harriet Brookes Gray, Katherine Eriksson, Santiago Pérez, Hannah Postel, Myera Rashid, Noah Simon
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Persistent specialization and growth: The Italian land reform 持续专业化与增长：意大利土地改革
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101739
Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati , Giampaolo Lecce , Matteo Magnaricotte
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Economic consequences of the 1933 Soviet famine 1933年苏联饥荒的经济后果
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101738
Natalya Naumenko
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Risk-coping behaviors in metropolis: Evidence from working-class households in Prewar Tokyo 大都市的风险应对行为：战前东京工薪阶层家庭的证据
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101722
Kota Ogasawara
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Living standards in Angola, 1760–19751 安哥拉的生活水平，1760-1975
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101732
Hélder Carvalhal , Nuno Palma
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Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history 人群来源的中国族谱作为人口和经济史的数据
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101734
Melanie Meng Xue
{"title":"Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history","authors":"Melanie Meng Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper evaluates the usefulness of crowd-sourced Chinese genealogical data for quantitative research in demography and economic history. I first examine whether genealogies — despite well-known selection biases — produce demographic patterns consistent with established historical knowledge of China. Comparisons with existing studies show that aggregate population-growth trends and sex ratios over time align reasonably well with established demographic and historical findings, suggesting that genealogies, though selective, capture coherent and interpretable patterns. Building on these plausibility checks, the paper argues that the main value of genealogical data lies in their scalability and temporal depth, particularly as crowd-sourced digitization vastly expands the number of available records. These features make genealogies well suited to analyses that leverage variation across regions and over time, an approach that is central in modern economic history.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101734"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145691467","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}
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Democratization, personal wealth of politicians and voting behavior 民主化、政治家个人财富与投票行为
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101733
Bas Machielsen
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Soaring in rationality: Bonds as a partial hedge against hyperinflation 理性的飙升：债券作为对抗恶性通货膨胀的部分对冲
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101720
Zhihao Xu
{"title":"Soaring in rationality: Bonds as a partial hedge against hyperinflation","authors":"Zhihao Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101720","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Why do states repay their debts? This paper addresses this question by examining how the Nationalist government partially honored major domestic bonds traded in Shanghai—<em>the Consolidated Bonds</em>—amid hyperinflation in post-World War II China. Three main findings emerge: (1) Bond prices surged exponentially between 1946 and 1948, surpassing traditional valuation benchmarks by tens of thousands of times, as a partial hedge against hyperinflation. (2) Price fluctuations were significantly driven by news indicating that the bonds might be redeemed at multiples of their face values following a prospective currency reform. (3) The Government ultimately responded to public expectations by redeeming the bonds at nominally generous multipliers, which aimed not only to sustain its bond issuance capacity but, more crucially, to preserve a currency system closely tied to its bond creditworthiness at relatively low fiscal cost. These findings suggest that a hybrid of the two principal theories of sovereign debt repayment best explains the experience of China’s Consolidated Bonds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101720"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145404598","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}
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A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam 圣贤之地：越南前精英和大学教授的遗产
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101723
Luu Duc Toan Huynh , Kiet Tuan Duong
{"title":"A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam","authors":"Luu Duc Toan Huynh ,&nbsp;Kiet Tuan Duong","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101723","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101723","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a unique dataset of 3,022 elites from the Ly to Nguyen dynasties (1075–1919) and 1,324 recent associate (and full) professors (2021–2023), we find that regions with more historical elites have more modern professors. Using the distance to the school exam venue and the distance to the coastal areas as instrumental variables, we establish such a causal relationship. In addition, social capital benefits those from areas dense with historical elites. We analyze data from temples, schools, and streets named after elites to identify cultural mechanisms linking historical elites to contemporary academic roles in Vietnam. This study demonstrates the lasting impact of historical traditions on human capital today in Confucian contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101723"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145553696","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}
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Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development 将政府权力下放给私人行为者：领主、国家能力和发展
IF 1.7 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101737
Daniel Oto-Peralías
{"title":"Delegating governmental authority to private actors: Lordships, state capacity and development","authors":"Daniel Oto-Peralías","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the consequences of delegating governmental authority to private actors through the study of lordships, a pivotal political institution in historical Europe. I first document a negative relationship between being a seigneurial town and central state capacity in ancien-regime Spain. Next, I focus on the Kingdom of Granada after its conquest by Castile in 1492 to leverage on that the initial distribution of lordships was conditionally exogenous, with the results corroborating the negative effect of lordships on state capacity. I further show two additional important results. First, the effect is very persistent, with former lordships towns featuring less state capacity almost a century after the abolition of the seigneurial regime. Second, there is a non-monotonic effect on economic growth. Contrary to conventional wisdom, lordships towns did not underperform royal towns during the Ancien Régime. Yet, despite not having started with disadvantage, former seigneurial towns experienced lower population growth from the 1910s onwards, a period in which the Spanish state started to play a bigger investment role. Thus, towns with historically less state presence benefited less from state’s investments, lagging behind.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101737"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145732699","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}
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