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Can the Great Compression be explained by Wartime Wage Controls? 大压缩可以用战时工资控制来解释吗？
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101691
Chris Vickers , Nicolas L. Ziebarth
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Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan 日本明治时期的铁路和技术采用
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101683
Junichi Yamasaki
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Early-life lead exposure and male longevity: Evidence from historical municipal water systems 早期铅暴露与男性寿命：来自历史城市供水系统的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101701
Jason Fletcher , Hamid Noghanibehambari
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The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia 俄罗斯帝国晚期精英、人力资本和工业变革的经济力量
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101697
Viktor Malein
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The long campaign: Britain’s fight to end the slave trade 漫长的战役：英国为结束奴隶贸易而战
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101694
Yi Jie Gwee , Hui Ren Tan
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Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy 导论特刊探讨经济史上第二次世界大战对美国经济的影响
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101700
William J. Collins , Andreas Ferrara , Price V. Fishback
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War bonds and household saving in WWII 二战中的战争债券和家庭储蓄
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101692
Gillian Brunet , Eric Hilt , Matthew Jaremski
{"title":"War bonds and household saving in WWII","authors":"Gillian Brunet ,&nbsp;Eric Hilt ,&nbsp;Matthew Jaremski","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101692","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101692","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household saving increased dramatically during World War II, reaching more than 19 percent of GDP. We study the effects of the war bond program implemented by the U.S. government on the level of household saving during the war. The bonds were heavily promoted in a series of drives, which encouraged thrift and associated subscriptions with patriotism, and also through a payroll deduction program. Yet as Friedman and Schwartz have noted, the main effect of the program may have been to change the form in which savings were held, rather than to increase saving. We use county-level data and an instrument for participation in the bond program to estimate the effect of war bond sales on total saving. We find that for every $100 in war bond sales, bank deposit inflows fell by $70, suggesting that while there was substantial substitution between war bonds and bank accounts, the program did actually increase total saving. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that the bond program increased total personal saving by about 7 percent, in large part driven by the voluntary payroll deduction program.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101692"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338438","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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Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines 地方能源获取和行业专业化：来自二战应急管道的证据
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101688
Jacob Greenspon , Gordon Hanson
{"title":"Local energy access and industry specialization: Evidence from World War II emergency pipelines","authors":"Jacob Greenspon ,&nbsp;Gordon Hanson","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101688","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101688","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does improving access to the supply of energy affect regional specialization in manufacturing? We evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines constructed by the U.S. government during World War II to transport oil and gas from the oil fields of the Southwest to wartime industrial producers in the Northeast. The pipelines were built rapidly to connect end points along a direct path that minimized use of scarce construction materials. Postwar they were converted to supply en route customers, giving counties close to the pipelines access to a cheap and plentiful source of energy. Between 1940 and 1950, counties with better access to pipeline gas had larger increases in their share of employment in energy-intensive industries. These impacts persisted to the mid-1980s for all energy-intensive industries and to the late 1990s for the subset of industries intensive in the direct use of electricity, despite the disruptive effects of the 1970s energy crisis. Our findings are relevant for understanding energy-related path dependence in local economic development patterns and how government intervention in energy markets affects industry location in the short and long run.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144241468","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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The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population 二战开支和军队服役对黑人寿命的影响
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101693
Adriana Lleras-Muney , Tommy Morgan , Joseph Price , William Wygal
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Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression 持久消费，银行困境，经济问题，以及它们在大萧条期间如何相互作用
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101698
Mark Carlson
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