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Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony 生育率对短期经济压力的反应：过渡前殖民地的价格波动和财富冲击

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101620

Jeanne Cilliers , Martine Mariotti , Igor Martins

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Transportation, decentralization, and path dependence: How did the old tramway shape Shanghai, China? 交通、分散化和路径依赖：老式有轨电车如何塑造了中国上海？

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101619

Mingxi Li

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Land reform and agrarian socialism in interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before civil war 战时欧洲的土地改革和农业社会主义：内战前 1930 年代西班牙的证据

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101618

Jordi Domènech , Ilona Lahdelma , Pablo Martinelli

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Bank failures and economic activity: Evidence from the progressive era 银行倒闭与经济活动：进步时代的证据

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101616

Marco del Angel , Gary Richardson , Michael Gou

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Institutional discrimination and assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 制度性歧视与同化：来自 1882 年《排华法案》的证据

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101615

Shuo Chen , Bin Xie

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Print culture and economic constraints: A quantitative analysis of book prices in eighteenth-century Britain 印刷文化与经济制约：十八世纪英国图书价格的定量分析

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101614

Iiro Tiihonen , Leo Lahti , Mikko Tolonen

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Did the 1917–21 economic depression accelerate the epidemiological transition? Milk prices, summer peak of mortality, and food-and-water causes of death in Madrid, Spain 1917-21 年的经济萧条是否加速了流行病学的转型？西班牙马德里的牛奶价格、夏季死亡高峰以及食物和水的死亡原因

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101613

Michel Oris, Stanislao Mazzoni, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas

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European business cycles and economic growth, 1300–2000 欧洲商业周期和经济增长，1300-2000 年

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101602

Stephen Broadberry , Jason Lennard

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Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century 东欧的收入不平等：二十世纪的保加利亚和捷克斯洛伐克

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101594

Stefan Nikolić , Filip Novokmet , Piotr Paweł Larysz

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Banking on innovation: Listed and non-listed equity investing, evidence from société générale de Belgique, 1850–1934 银行创新：上市和非上市股票投资，1850-1934 年比利时总公司的证据

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Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101593

Gertjan Verdickt , Marc Deloof

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