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Economic stress and migration in early modern Japan: Rural-urban comparative evidence from population registers

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101667

Satomi KUROSU , Hao DONG

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Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101656

James J Feigenbaum , Jonas Helgertz , Joseph Price

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Balancing economic stress: The role of rural–urban migration in nineteenth-century East Belgium

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101666

George C. Alter , Michel Oris

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Gains from factory electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905–1926

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101654

Will Damron

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Union wage effects in Sweden: Evidence from the interwar period

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101655

William Skoglund

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The fertility response to price changes in a manorial society: The case of rural Estonia, 1834–1884 庄园社会中生育率对价格变化的反应：以爱沙尼亚农村为例，1834-1884

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101653

Martin Klesment, Kersti Lust

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Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization 从黑死病到工业化开始德国的贫困

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101630

Guido Alfani , Victoria Gierok , Felix Schaff

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The evolution of the value of water power during the Industrial Revolution 工业革命期间水力价值的演变

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101645

Todd Guilfoos

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Protestantism and human capital: Evidence from early 20th century Ireland 新教与人力资本：来自20世纪初爱尔兰的证据

IF 2.6 1区历史学

Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101647

Alan Fernihough , Stuart Henderson

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Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries 意大利南部收入和财富不平等的长期趋势。那不勒斯王国（普利亚），16至18世纪

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101646

Guido Alfani , Sergio Sardone

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