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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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101694
Yi Jie Gwee , Hui Ren Tan
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Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign 民权抗议与选举结果：探究穷人运动的影响
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101686
D. Mark Anderson , Kerwin Kofi Charles , Krzysztof Karbownik , Daniel I. Rees , Camila Steffens
{"title":"Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign","authors":"D. Mark Anderson ,&nbsp;Kerwin Kofi Charles ,&nbsp;Krzysztof Karbownik ,&nbsp;Daniel I. Rees ,&nbsp;Camila Steffens","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest, recruit, and hold non-violent protests. Using data from 1960–1970, we estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to reductions in Democratic vote share and turnout, while in the West they may have benefited Democratic candidates at the expense of their Republican rivals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143864818","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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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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101683
Junichi Yamasaki
{"title":"Railroads and technology adoption in Meiji Japan","authors":"Junichi Yamasaki","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101683","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101683","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Railroad access may accelerate technological progress in the industrial sector through various theoretical channels. By digitizing novel datasets of factories and railroad networks in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japan and using the least-cost path between prioritized destinations as an instrument, I find that the distance from railroads in 1892 accounts for 34 percent of the growth in steam power adopted by factories from 1888 to 1902. I also find evidence supporting several mechanisms behind the reduced-form effect, such as the trade channel. The results suggest that railroad construction played a significant role in the rapid technological catch-up of Meiji Japan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337755","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 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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101697
Viktor Malein
{"title":"The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia","authors":"Viktor Malein","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101697","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101697","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the economic impacts of land ownership concentration among the aristocratic elite in the Russian Empire. I document that areas with a higher concentration of noble land ownership were associated with lower levels of primary education during 1880–1911. Exploring the mechanisms, I show that by controlling local governments the landed elites decreased public spending on education, shifting the financial burden to peasant households in the 1880s–1890s. I also demonstrate that the extension of school provision through a government program of schooling subsidies after 1905 led to a relatively large increase in enrollment rates in regions with high noble landownership concentration, suggesting initial underinvestment in education in these areas. Finally, the paper identifies a significant negative influence of landed elites on industrial growth and firm productivity, with up to 56% of this effect attributable to the human capital channel.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304956","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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101688
Jacob Greenspon , Gordon Hanson
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The wheel of life? The effect of the abolition of the foundling wheel in nineteenth-century Italy 生命之轮？十九世纪意大利废除弃婴轮的影响
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101681
Giuliana Freschi , Marco Molteni
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The paradox of slave collateral 奴隶抵押品的悖论
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101670
Rajesh P. Narayanan , Jonathan Pritchett
{"title":"The paradox of slave collateral","authors":"Rajesh P. Narayanan ,&nbsp;Jonathan Pritchett","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101670","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101670","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As mobile financial assets, slaves have high liquidation value that makes them desirable as loan collateral. The mobility of slaves also makes them insecure collateral because borrowers could sell slaves to outside buyers or move them beyond the reach of creditors. We contend that creditors balanced the opposing forces of liquidity and security in deciding whether to extend credit against slave collateral. Using an original sample of New Orleans mortgage and sales records, we find that relatively few loans were backed with slave collateral and that slave buyers paid higher interest rates for their loans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101670"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577631","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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Kinship and opportunity: Swedish chain migration to the United States, 1880–1920 亲缘关系与机遇：1880-1920年瑞典移民到美国
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101695
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe, Jonas Helgertz
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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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101698
Mark Carlson
{"title":"Durable consumption, bank distress, economic concerns, and how they interacted during the great depression","authors":"Mark Carlson","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores simultaneous developments in the banking sector and the real economy during the Great Depression and whether these are related to shifts in beliefs about economic prospects. It identifies a notable coincidence of bank closures and declines in consumer durable consumption (new automobile purchases) in Ohio in the early 1930s. To examine whether shifts in beliefs and the economic concerns of households and businesses may have mattered, I test whether keywords from local newspapers related to economic prospects or sentiments are associated with subsequent bank closures and declines in automobile purchases. The results support the idea that beliefs mattered for both of those outcomes, even after accounting for economic fundamentals. The analysis also highlights the importance of local economic conditions in shaping behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144229877","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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Socioeconomic differences in population growth in 19th century Liaoning, China: a decomposition 19世纪辽宁人口增长的社会经济差异：一个分解
IF 2.6 1区 历史学
Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101678
Cameron Campbell , James Z. Lee
{"title":"Socioeconomic differences in population growth in 19th century Liaoning, China: a decomposition","authors":"Cameron Campbell ,&nbsp;James Z. Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We decompose population growth in 19th century Liaoning in northeast China into the shares accounted for by different socioeconomic groups, and by time periods with different economic conditions as reflected in grain prices. This decomposition reveals who benefitted the most when social and economic conditions supported population increase. Previous studies of one region for which relevant data are available, northeast China, showed that birth and death rates varied according to community, household, and individual context, but did not investigate differences in growth rates by context, or the shares of population growth accounted for by each group. Using the same dataset, we decompose population growth by synthesizing differentials in mortality and fertility into estimates of implied growth rates of population subgroups and the shares of total population growth they account for. This decomposition framework can be applied in any setting where household registers or other sources allow for the measurement of the mortality and fertility rates of population subgroups at fixed points of time. We show that advantaged socioeconomic groups contributed disproportionately to population growth in northeast China, and that more growth took place when harvests were good, that is when grain prices were low. Even though mortality and fertility responses to grain price fluctuations varied across subgroups, there is no evidence of differential response of growth rates to these fluctuations. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for our understanding of population dynamics in the late Qing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47413,"journal":{"name":"Explorations in Economic History","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101678"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609459","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}
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