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Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow 逃亡途中:帝国晚期莫斯科的马尔萨斯压力
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101458
Vadim Kufenko , Ekaterina Khaustova , Vincent Geloso
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引用次数: 2
A history of aggregate demand and supply shocks for the United Kingdom, 1900 to 2016 1900年至2016年英国总需求和总供给冲击的历史
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101448
Robert Calvert Jump , Karsten Kohler
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Erratum to “Predictors of bank distress: The 1907 crisis in Sweden” [Explorations in Economic History 80 (2021) 101380] 对“银行危机的预测者:1907年瑞典危机”的勘误[经济历史探索80 (2021)101380]
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101456
Anna Grodecka-Messi , Seán Kenny , Anders Ögren
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Democracy, autocracy, and sovereign debt: How polity influenced country risk on the peripheries of the global economy, 1870–1913 民主、独裁和主权债务:1870-1913年,政治如何影响全球经济边缘的国家风险
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101449
Ali  Coşkun Tunçer , Leonardo Weller
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引用次数: 0
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark 抓住达摩克利斯之剑:丹麦向后马尔萨斯时代的过渡
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101437
Peter Sandholt Jensen , Maja Uhre Pedersen , Cristina Victoria Radu , Paul Richard Sharp
{"title":"Arresting the Sword of Damocles: The transition to the post-Malthusian era in Denmark","authors":"Peter Sandholt Jensen ,&nbsp;Maja Uhre Pedersen ,&nbsp;Cristina Victoria Radu ,&nbsp;Paul Richard Sharp","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Malthusian model is the subject of a fierce debate within economic history. Although the positive causal relationship postulated from living standards to population growth is relatively uncontroversial for preindustrial societies, this cannot be said for the other key relationship, diminishing returns due to fixed supplies of land. We argue that Denmark, which was characterized by extreme resource and environmental constraints until the final decades of the eighteenth century, provides an ideal setting for testing whether any society was ever truly Malthusian. We employ a cointegrated VAR model on Danish data from 1731 to 1800, finding evidence for diminishing returns until ca. 1775. Yet this relationship disappears in the late-eighteenth century, consistent with an increasing pace of technological progress and the emergence of what Unified Growth Theory has termed the “post-Malthusian” era.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101437"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498321000644/pdfft?md5=38ad7a2a572ee9e67c1d3b316c87ca68&pid=1-s2.0-S0014498321000644-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77043721","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}
引用次数: 2
Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933 1933年春天啤酒合法化带来的就业增长估计
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101427
Eline Poelmans , Jason E. Taylor , Samuel Raisanen , Andrew C. Holt
{"title":"Estimates of employment gains attributable to beer legalization in spring 1933","authors":"Eline Poelmans ,&nbsp;Jason E. Taylor ,&nbsp;Samuel Raisanen ,&nbsp;Andrew C. Holt","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In April 1933, eight months prior to the end of Prohibition, states within the US gained the ability to legalize 3.2 percent alcohol beer. Proponents of legalization predicted that the brewer's dray would bring jobs along with beer. We estimate that legalization brought around 81,000 jobs between April and June of 1933, 60,000 of which were created in April, when the nation emerged from the trough of the Great Depression. This suggests that around 5.6 percent of nationwide non-agricultural spring employment gains, and around 15 percent of April job gains, were associated with beer legalization. Thus, this very early New Deal policy played an important supporting role in helping the nation turn the corner toward recovery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117739558","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}
引用次数: 3
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99 估计近代早期与战争有关的平民死亡率:来自低地国家的证据,1620 - 1699
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101425
Bram van Besouw, Daniel R. Curtis
{"title":"Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99","authors":"Bram van Besouw,&nbsp;Daniel R. Curtis","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Early modern warfare in Western Europe exposed civilian populations to violence, hardship, and disease. Despite limited empirical evidence, the ensuing mortality effects are regularly invoked by economic historians to explain patterns of economic development. Using newly collected data on adult burials and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we estimate early modern war-driven mortality in localities close to military activity. We find a clear and significant general mortality effect consistent with the localized presence of diseases. During years with major epidemic disease outbreaks, we demonstrate a stronger and more widely spreading mortality effect. However, war-driven mortality increases during epidemic years are of similar relative magnitude is those in non-epidemic war years. Given the omnipresence of warfare in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, war-driven mortality was remarkably constant rather than a sharp discontinuity. The economic impact of warfare likely played out over the long term rather than driven by sudden large mortality spikes creating rapid structural change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101425"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85422911","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}
引用次数: 1
Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland 谁给革命者捐款?来自1916年后爱尔兰的证据
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101435
Enda Patrick Hargaden
{"title":"Who donates to revolutionaries? Evidence from post-1916 Ireland","authors":"Enda Patrick Hargaden","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes the determinants of providing financial support to revolutionaries, using a hand-compiled dataset of 17,000 donations to the Irish National Aid Association after the Easter Rising of 1916. Financial support is best predicted by literacy, marital status, religious affiliation, and relatively high socio-economic status. In this sense, donations to revolutionaries share some characteristics of a luxury good. I find evidence that long-run historical grievances (the Great Famine) also predict support.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101435"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87750853","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}
引用次数: 1
Church politics, sectarianism, and judicial terror: The Scottish witch-hunt, 1563 - 1736 教会政治、宗派主义和司法恐怖:苏格兰的政治迫害,1563 - 1736
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101447
Parashar Kulkarni , Steven Pfaff
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Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard 民主约束和对古典金本位的坚持
IF 2.3 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101436
Bert S. Kramer , Petros Milionis
{"title":"Democratic constraints and adherence to the classical gold standard","authors":"Bert S. Kramer ,&nbsp;Petros Milionis","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101436","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101436","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study how political institutions affected the decision of countries to adhere to the classical gold standard. Using a variety of econometric techniques and controlling for a wide range of relevant economic and political factors, we find that the probability of adherence to the gold standard before World War I was ceteris paribus lower for countries which were more democratic. This effect can be linked to how open the political process was to different segments of the population and the extent of political competition resulting from that. The effect was particularly relevant for peripheral countries and it influenced both the decision of countries to adopt the gold standard as well as the decision to suspend it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101436"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81718018","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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